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, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

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

“We call it the ‘great whale conveyor belt,’” Joe Roman ... It’s super-cool, and changes how we think about ecosystems in the ocean.” This research also highlights the potential ...

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

“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 ...