Gliding gracefully through the marine waters, the blue whale is considered to be the largest creature to have ever existed.

Here are ten animals with the highest populations on Earth. Some are quite familiar. You have never heard of some others, ...

They were big Euphausia superba, the king of krill, probably the most successful species on Earth by measure of sheer biomass: roughly twice the weight of humanity, thronging in "swarms" as dense ...

Antarctic krill is rich in omega-3 fatty acids and serves as the only food source for larger whale species like blues or fins, filtering easily through their bristly mouths and forming an integral ...

Whales feed for roughly 100 days out of each year; depending on the species, an adult whale may consume 1 to 6 tons of krill in a day. Most baleen whales use a strategy called lunge feeding ...

she says the research does offer some insight into the connection between predator cues and krill behavior. “The so-called ‘landscape of fear’ ecological theory comes to mind, where species ...

Antarctic krill fishing could threaten the recovery of whale species that were nearly wiped out by industrial whaling, according to a study led by CU Boulder and Stanford University, and published ...

Small marine crustaceans are as valuable as key coastal habitats for storing carbon and should be similarly protected, according to new research. The study shows that a single species, Antarctic ...