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 ...

When whales migrate from their cold feeding grounds to warmer breeding waters, they carry tons of nutrients in their urine.

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

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

A humpback whale and her calf are two of thousands of whales who create a newly discovered "conveyor belt," carrying huge ...

Scientists have discovered that whales move nutrients thousands of miles -- in their urine -- from as far as Alaska to Hawaii. These tons of nitrogen support the health of tropical ecosystems and fish ...

Ocean currents and upwellings also transport ... have declined precipitously over the last few centuries, the great whale conveyor belt has weakened. The nutrient transport numbers — by the ...

“We call it the ‘great whale conveyor belt,’” Joe Roman ... It’s super-cool, and changes how we think about ecosystems in the ocean.” Brendan Rascius is a McClatchy national real ...