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An illustration of the (A) pre-whaling and (B) post-whaling interactions between whales, shrimp-like krill (pink), and photosynthesizing organisms known as phytoplankton (top left of each panel) in ...

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Whales carry tons of nutrients in their pee thousands of miles across the oceans. © Martin van Aswegen, NOAA Permit 21476 In 2010, two researchers in the U.S ...