with a previous Stanford study finding that whales fertilise the ocean through their droppings, providing nutrients for the phytoplankton that krill eat. A particularly distressing consequence of ...

Warming ocean waters and climate change are impacting whales that travel through Southern California waters to Baja, Mexico. The changes are bringing more whales to the region, sometimes just feet ...

with a previous Stanford study finding that whales fertilise the ocean through their droppings, providing nutrients for the phytoplankton that krill eat. The rise in krill fishing is also linked to an ...

The krill is the shrimp animal, and the Antarctic blue whales eat up to 4 tons of krill daily. Yes, that big amount! How can they eat so much? This is due to the certain unique features that they have ...

The diet primarily consists of krill, tiny shrimp-like creatures, which they consume in massive quantities. According to studies, an average-sized blue whale can eat 40 million krill daily. Despite ...

A pod of killer whales was hunting a krill seal, and the seal hid from them in a crack in an iceberg. There were five killer whales in total - three adults and two kids. However, the seal won the hide ...

In Juneau, North Pacific humpbacks and orcas are the two most common types of whales migrating through these calm waters. Humpbacks feed off krill and small baitfish, which Juneau's waters are ...

One theory is that climate change is altering the abundance of the tiny shrimplike krill humpback whales feed on, forcing them to travel further in search of food. Alternatively, whales may be ...

Shortly before 4:40 p.m., Stewart reported that the whale had been euthanized by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. Minke whales are one of the smallest species of baleen whales, which use a ...