They call this movement of nutrients a 'conveyor belt' or 'the great whale pee funnel.' In some places, like Hawaii, the input of nutrients from whales is bigger than from local sources.

Return to the world of The Storm Whale in this celebration of love, in which Noi’s grandma tells him about a long-ago friendship between a little girl and a whale. Charlotte Eyre is the former ...

The Great Whale Rescue is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, ... But then some ominous news from Iceland: A massive storm has blown in.

‘Great whale conveyor belt’ nourishes the ocean. March 20, 2025. Eve Zuckoff, CAI; A gray whale seen south of Nantucket on March 1, 2024. (Courtesy of the New England Aquarium via CAI) Whales ...

And we got great looks at them,” Ballance said. The whales swam so close to the Pacific Storm that the crew was able to collect a small sample of skin with a crossbow-fired biopsy dart.

The killer whale has unseated the great white shark as the ocean's most feared predator, study finds Back to video We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or ...

Benji Davies’ “Storm Whale” children’s books are getting an animated adaptation from Lupus Films, the studio behind the adaptation of Judith Kerr’s “The Tiger Who Came to Tea ...

Reprinted by The Salt Lake Herald-Republican in 1888, the story recalls an attempt by British scientist, James Wickham, to introduce two blue whale calves into the Great Salt Lake.

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — Fishing boats off the East Coast recently encountered a rare sight: Two great whites feasting on a 50-foot dead whale. The Virginian-Pilot reported Tuesday that the ...

When an entangled North Atlantic right whale was found dead off South Carolina on Feb. 27, several great white sharks were spotted by the airplane crew. Capt. Chip Michalove, owner of Outcast ...

The North Atlantic right whale found dead this week off Long Island, N.Y., has been identified as a 40-plus-year-old male who had been seen this summer entangled in fishing gear in Canadian waters.

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 ...