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 ...

Among the myriad creatures that populate our ocean, some stand out as having an outsized impact on the marine environment—shaping and maintaining habitats that themselves sustain countless other forms ...

CORAL REEF From the deck of a skiff on the surface ... These sharks, the biggest fish in the sea, are plankton-eaters; Gladden Spit is the first place they have ever been observed eating spawn.

Whale poo is responsible for moving tonnes of nutrients from deep water up to the surface. Now new research shows that whales also move vast quantities of nitrogen thousands of kilometres in their ...

Coral reefs are some of the world's most diverse ecosystems. Despite making up less than 1% of the world's oceans, one ...

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

and many have coral reef ecosystems," says Joe Roman, a biologist at the University of Vermont, who co-led the new research. ...