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

Rights and other baleen-feeding whales use a comblike strainer of baleen plates and bristles to ensnare tiny morsels of food as they swim. Right whales feed on zooplankton and other tiny organisms ...

A new study reveals that baleen whales, including humpbacks and gray whales, enrich oceans when they take a whizz.

It turns out, whale pee is nothing to pooh-pooh. The marine giants’ urine serves a vital role in ecosystems by moving tons of nutrients across vast ocean distances, according to new research.

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

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

LIFE CYCLE: While there is some uncertainty about this whale's life span, on average it is believed to be at least 50 years. FEEDING: Right whales are baleen whales, meaning they use a comb-like ...

Nutrient-rich waste Whale excrement contains iron, phosphorus, and nitrogen, which are substances that phytoplankton need to ...

The North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis) is a baleen whale species that inhabits waters off the East Coast of the United States and Canada. During the summer, these whales migrate north to ...

Enormous, gentle, and playful, right whales have had the misfortune of being defined, even named, according to their value as hunted rather than living creatures. Whalers named the species thinking ...

New research suggests male baleen whales looking for love sing ... travel in groups and are more likely to fight a killer whale, include right, bowhead, grey and humpback, while those that travel ...