Southern right whales might be eating a more diverse diet than previously thought, an adaptation that scientists hope will ...

A molecular ecologist is hoping that studying the faeces of southern right whales, or tohorā, will help protect them from the threat of climate change.

This must be a snorkeler’s worst nightmare! But all animals have to poop somehow and that is as true for whale sharks as for any other species. The bigger the animal, the bigger the poop and whale ...

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 ...

Rod Keogh has been storing whale poo in his freezer for years. "It's hard to find people as interested in it as me," he says. "People expect something six feet long but it's not like that." In fact, ...

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 ...

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