How do you give a whale a pregnancy test? This sounds like a joke, but it is not. At the New England Aquarium in Boston, scientists found an unusual method for confirming whale pregnancies - a ...
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Experts say the 'whale poop loop' is saving the planet
Luckily, Savoca said, tons and tons of whale poop isn’t harmful to the environment: It actually helps bloom phytoplankton.
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Whale poop power: Iron and copper-rich feces fueled ancient ocean food chain
To sustain their huge bodies, blue whales, which are the largest creatures on Earth, feed on huge amounts of krill. A hundred ...
An illustration of the (A) pre-whaling and (B) post-whaling interactions between whales, shrimp-like krill (pink), and photosynthesizing organisms known as phytoplankton (top left of each panel) in ...
What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...
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