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 ...

Penguins are flightless birds found primarily on the coasts and islands of Antarctica, South America, Australia, New Zealand, ...

The largest blue whale ever recorded weighed over 199 tons. Even average-sized blue whales are massive, weighing around 350,000 pounds. That’s about the same as 30 adult male African elephants.

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 ...

"These whales are migrating up from Mexico and Central America, where they spend their winters. San Diego is sort of this point where they kind of test our local water, see if there's any krill ...

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 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.

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 ...