Preserved penguin poop may be the key to connecting past Antarctic Ocean conditions and penguin populations, shedding light on how the birds and the region's ecosystem might fare as the climate ...

What can whale poop teach us about ocean nutrients? This is what a recent study published in Communications Earth & Environment hopes to address as a team of researchers investigated a link between a ...

Bigger than any dinosaur that ever existed, blue whales can reach 110 feet long and weigh up to 190 tons. These giants, alongside other cetacean species like humpback and grey whales, are part of a ...

Whales of all shapes and sizes play a significant role in the health of marine ecosystems. About 50% of the air humans breathe is produced by the ocean, thanks to phytoplankton and whale waste. The ...

'Whale pump' boosts ocean productivity and channels carbon into deep sea for long-term storage, say marine scientists 'We have this huge gentle giant, basically, that is providing all these ecosystem ...

Scientists found baleen whales eat and excrete more than we thought, and the discovery has implications for the entire planet. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...

Leo Uesaka strapped cameras onto seabirds to study their takeoffs. What he got instead was a barrage of poop footage. “I was surprised to see how frequently the birds defecated in the video footage,” ...

Tickled by sunlight, life teems at the ocean surface. Yet the influence of any given microbe, plankton, or fish there extends far beyond this upper layer. In the form of dead organisms or poop, ...

There’s an elite club in surfing. One which, for entry, requires determination, desperation, and a smidge of shameless depravity. We’re talking about the pooping in the ocean (occasionally wetsuit) ...