Whales feed for roughly 100 days out of each year; depending on the species, an adult whale may consume 1 to 6 tons of krill ...

"The wind never lets up and there is so much wildlife. If you’re on the ocean then you’re never far from whales, you always ...

Whale watchers got a rare view of the world's largest mammal when they saw a blue whale offshore of Cape May, New Jersey ...

According to their results, the current krill biomass can’t support both the expanding krill fishery and the recovery of the ...

The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales – species like humpbacks that filter tiny organisms from seawater for food. In the 20th century ...

The new findings reveal that Antarctic krill store amounts of carbon that are comparable to critical blue carbon habitats ...

Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, according to new research.

For the first time, we used a computer model of ocean currents to show that krill waste products don’t need to reach great ...

Citation: Whales are recovering from near extinction, but industrial fishing around Antarctica competes for their sole food source (2024, September 10) retrieved 19 September 2024 from https ...

Matthew Savoca, Stanford University (THE CONVERSATION) The Southern Ocean encircling Antarctica is the world’s largest feeding ground for baleen whales – species like humpbacks that filter ...