Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display “traditional migratory patterns,” moving from colder waters in the summer to ...

Whales are the bees of the ocean. That’s a conclusion of new ... migrating along what’s been dubbed the “great whale conveyor belt.” “Humpback whales and gray whales make the longest ...

Whale urine helps move nutrients thousands of miles across the ocean in a “conveyer belt ... “We call it the ‘great whale conveyor belt,’” Joe Roman, a University of Vermont biologist ...