Whales are the biggest animals on Earth and their huge bodies play a role in the carbon cycle. They capture carbon in their body as they live and encourage biodiversity with their poop. They act as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

An illustration of the (A) pre-whaling and (B) post-whaling interactions between whales, shrimp-like krill (pink), and photosynthesizing organisms known as phytoplankton (top left of each panel) in ...

Sperm whales blasted a "big dark bubble" of poop to prevent an impending orca attack off the southern coast of Western Australia. Scientists witnessed the clever defense strategy unfold Tuesday (March ...