Through urine, feces, placentas, carcasses, and sloughing skin, whales bring thousands of tons of nitrogen and other nutrients from high-latitude areas like Alaska and Antarctica to low-nutrient ...

Whales are not just big, they’re a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...

Whales are the ... s been dubbed the “great whale conveyor belt.” “Humpback whales and gray whales make the longest-distance migrations of any mammal on the planet, thousands of miles ...

More than 60 years after the first debunked discovery of a planet orbiting Barnard’s Star, the closest single-star system to ...

They call this movement of nutrients a 'conveyor belt' or 'the great whale pee ... the nutrient inputs of blue whales -- the largest animals to ever live on the Earth -- are not known and were ...

Led by University of Vermont biologist Joe Roman, the research underscores that whales are not just huge—they're a huge deal ...

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Xenoblade Chronicles X starts off with the human race boarding spaceships in an attempt to escape Earth after it gets caught ...

“I saw them dissect a whale almost every day ... “When you zoom out of the earth, as if you don’t have a body, you start to miss the planet.” As pandemic restrictions loosened, and ...

Monolith Soft's reimagining of its Wii U spinoff is an OK version of a brilliant RPG, and less definitive than its name ...