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

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

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

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

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 ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

They're living life on a different scale," says Andrew Pershing ... were not included in the primary calculations of the new study. In the Southern Ocean, blue whale populations are still greatly ...

New research has shown that whales ferry substantial quantities of nutrients for thousands of miles in their urine and other ...

A new study proposes that the massive ancient shark was built more slenderly than a great white. But not all paleontologists ...

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