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 ...

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Whales are not just big, they’re a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...

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Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.

Whale pee and other bi-products play a vital role in ocean ecosystems. Find out how they transport nutrients across the seas.

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales - including right whales, gray whales, and humpbacks - transport around ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

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By the end of the ride, the group had counted more than 2,000 dolphins, including light gray baby calves, several hundred Pacific white-sided dolphins, and northern right whale dolphins.

New research shows that whales move nutrients thousands of miles—in their pee and poop—from as far as Alaska to Hawaii, ...