A jogger got quite the surprise when he spotted a sperm whale carcass washed up on the shore in western Ireland earlier this month.Footage from Brian Nolan shows the dead whale, which he estimated to ...

The carcass, reduced to a bony skeleton, measured about 6.5 feet and was surrounded by crawling creatures that fed on its ...

In a nutshell Migrating baleen whales transport thousands of tons of nutrients from cold, nutrient-rich feeding grounds to ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

Great rivers of whale pee make a remarkable contribution to Earth's cycling of nutrients, a new study reveals.

The heavy carcass, weighing approximately 10 to 15 tons, is being dismantled and dissected on Sylt. A specialized company is dismembering the sperm whale to transport it in containers to the ...

The study focused on a handful of baleen species — namely, gray whales, humpback whales and right whales — which display ...

“Beyond urine, whale carcasses also serve as nutrient deposits. When a whale dies, its massive body sinks to the ocean floor, ...

KUANTAN, Feb 24 (Bernama) -- A carcass of a 10-metre-long whale was found in a decomposed state on Pantai Sungai Miang in Pekan, near here, yesterday. The marine mammal was found partially buried in ...

RECENTLY, a 16-second video showing the carcass of a whale stranded on a beach went viral on social media. It was claimed that the carcass washed up at Pantai Kampung Baru in Sungai Miang.

The 47-foot fin whale that washed up on the Anchorage mudflats in November, drawing hundreds of visitors and becoming a citywide phenomenon, has found a permanent home at a Wasilla museum. Remains of ...