"The movement of nitrogen and other nutrients can be important to the growth of phytoplankton, or microscopic algae, and provide food for sharks ... Thousands of humpback whales travel from a vast ...

The Sausalito-based Marine Mammal Center is probing the death of a female gray whale that washed up on Black Sands Beach in ...

which are tiny plants that absorb vast amounts of carbon and produce oxygen that play a critical role in the marine food web. Researchers looked at whales’ input of nutrients from urine ...

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 ...

and provide food for sharks and other fish and many invertebrates." Thousands of humpback whales travel from a vast area where they feed in the Gulf of Alaska to a more restricted area in Hawaii ...