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MIAMI -- Officials have shut down the remote krill fishery near Antarctica early after trawling for the tiny crustacean -- a vital food source for whales that also helps fight climate change -- ...
STORY: The icy waters off Antarctica are estimated to hold up to 550 million tons of krill. These tiny shrimp-like creatures are the linchpin in the Antarctic food web, sustaining a huge number of ...
Picture an animal whose tongue will weigh as much as an entire elephant. Sounds like an exciting joke, but not for the blue ...
Fin, humpback, and minke whales in the Gulf of St Lawrence are eating more fish and less krill than they did in the past ...
MIAMI (AP) — Trawling near Antarctica for krill — a crustacean central to the diet of whales and a critical buffer to global warming — has surged to a record and is fast approaching a never before ...
A new study has revealed that some of the ocean's tiniest fish are having an outsized impact when it comes to helping the planet. Antarctic krill have the ability to store at least 20 million metric ...
While most of us may just think of krill as baleen whale food, the tiny crustaceans are also very adept swimmers … enough so that scientists have now developed a krill-inspired robotic platform in ...
MIAMI (AP) — Officials have shut down early the remote krill fishery near Antarctica after trawling for the tiny crustacean — a vital food source for whales that also helps fight climate change — ...
MIAMI — Trawling near Antarctica for krill — a crustacean central to the diet of whales and a critical buffer to global warming — has surged to a record and is fast approaching a never before reached ...