The team analyzed whale poop for iron, known to be especially limited in the Southern Ocean, as well as copper.

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What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & ...

A recent theory proposes that whales weren't just predators in the ocean environment: Nutrients that whales excreted may have provided a key fertilizer to these marine ecosystems. Oceanographers now ...

The Fairy or Little Blue Penguin, the smallest penguin species, stands at 13-17 inches and weighs just over 1 kg. These ...

These tiny creatures may be no bigger than your little finger, but scientists plan to start counting them from space. Knowing ...

In the sea as on land, climate change is driving shifts in the abundance and distribution of species. Scientists are just ...

WWF, the University of Strathclyde and the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have teamed up for the pioneering project, which ...

UK scientists are hoping to monitor Antarctic krill from space as the species faces growing threats from climate change and ...

Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny - but critically important - ...