Whales might poop more than scientists previously thought. That’s one conclusion of a paper published Wednesday in Nature, in which researchers spied on baleen whales with suction-cup sensors and ...
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 ...
Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...
An enormous amount of water passes through mussels each day—but microplastics stay behind. Introducing more of the creatures who could help keep oceans cleaner—just make sure you have an easy way to ...
PORTLAND, Ore. — Oregon State University researchers have been scooping up whale poop to better understand not only the health of the mammals but also of our ocean. It may not be the most pleasant of ...
Bigger than any dinosaur that ever existed, blue whales can reach 110 feet long and weigh up to 190 tons. These giants, alongside other cetacean species like humpback and grey whales, are part of a ...
OREGON, USA — Gray whales visit Oregon's coast every summer. And every summer Leigh Torres is out on the ocean right there with them. "We do these sort of health check-ups on individual whales," she ...
Scientists found baleen whales eat and excrete more than we thought, and the discovery has implications for the entire planet. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...
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These Seabirds Poop 5% of Their Body Weight Every Hour and They Only Do It While Flying Over the Ocean
Leo Uesaka strapped cameras onto seabirds to study their takeoffs. What he got instead was a barrage of poop footage. “I was surprised to see how frequently the birds defecated in the video footage,” ...
Tickled by sunlight, life teems at the ocean surface. Yet the influence of any given microbe, plankton, or fish there extends far beyond this upper layer. In the form of dead organisms or poop, ...
There’s an elite club in surfing. One which, for entry, requires determination, desperation, and a smidge of shameless depravity. We’re talking about the pooping in the ocean (occasionally wetsuit) ...
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