In the 20th century, people’s demand for whale blubber and baleen drove industrial whalers to kill roughly three million whales—a whopping 99 percent of the world’s large whale population. The ...
Sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) are strange, cylindrical marine invertebrates closely related to sea urchins and starfish. They have no eyes, resemble a colossal chubby worm, and use their anus for both ...
Poo is big business in the open ocean. It's a vital source of nutrients for many aquatic plants, and helps sequester vast amounts of carbon from the atmosphere. But studying poo and pooing behavior in ...