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

The ocean is home to the largest animals of all-time, the great whales ... To study lunge-feeding behaviour blue whales are tagged with cameras. Rorquals are some of the largest whales on the ...

The blue whale is the largest animal ever known to have lived on Earth. Blue whales are largest of all baleen whales and are found worldwide. They have a long slender body with a proportionally ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

A blue whale skeleton weighing 4.5 tonnes is one of the first things visitors encounter ... Images of William Armstrong are used with thanks to Olive Condell, his great grandaughter. Find out more ...

“We call it the ‘great whale conveyor belt,”” Roman ... Plus, the nutrient inputs of blue whales—the largest animals to ever live on the Earth—are not known and were not included ...

The exhibition Timed to coincide with the installation of the skeleton of a young blue whale in the museum’s main entrance hall (replacing the iconic Diplodocus skeleton cast), the exhibition ...

Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals. While their ...