The animals we best know as fish food help to store millions of tons of carbon in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica.

The average whale shark measures about 30 feet long, with a mouth stretching nearly 5-feet across. The largest whale sharks ...

Estimated summer abundance and krill consumption of fin whales throughout the Scotia Sea during the 2018/2019 summer season. Scientific Reports, 14 (1), 7493. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-57378-3 ...

Blue whales, the largest animals on Earth, have been sighted along the San Diego coastline, signaling the beginning of the blue whale watching season.

They eat krill, and they eat a lot of it. A blue whale’s stomach can hold 2,200 pounds of krill at a time, and they eat around 9,000 pounds of krill each day.

Krill and shrimp may have vaguely similar body shapes, but they're separated by a world of differences in terms of anatomy and human consumption.

Krill are a keystone species in Antarctica and, unfortunately for them, they reside near the bottom of the food chain. They provide food for some marine species and one of those species is the Adélie ...

In the lab, the team let krill loose in a flume filled with flowing seawater, adding either algae for the krill to eat, a bit of Adélie penguin poop or both. Cameras tracked the krill’s 3-D ...

Krill oil is rich in two key omega-3 fatty acids — EPA (eicosapentaenoic acid) and DHA (docosahexaenoic acid). Both of these compounds are considered heart-healthy and also help fight inflammation.

Fact checked by Nick Blackmer Krill oil is a fish oil alternative made from tiny shrimp-like crustaceans, a dietary staple ...

Antarctic Krill may be no bigger than your little finger, but collectively they’re a powerhouse. Every day, these tiny crustaceans transfer 0.3 million tonnes of carbon to the deep ocean – equivalent ...