When we think about climate change, giant whales are not usually part of the conversation. Yet these ocean giants play a surprisingly important role in keeping the planet balanced. One of the most ...
Scientists long believed that these whales, which swim throughout the Southern Hemisphere, mainly feasted on krill and small ...
Saving endangered baleen whales could boost the carbon storage capacity of the Southern Ocean, suggests a new study of whale faeces. Whale faeces once provided huge quantities of iron to a now anaemic ...