Scientists say subtle differences in the colour of seawater will enable them to count tiny - but critically important - ...

More than a dozen supertrawlers are licensed to fish for krill, a tiny crustacean and key food source for whales, dolphins and other animals that travel thousands of miles to feed on it.

In this photo made by a CCAMLR observer, fishermen aboard the Chilean krill trawler Antarctic Endeavour prepare to release a humpback whale caught in a net in waters between Chile and Antarctica on ...

The poo locks away carbon from the ... web and are the diet of penguins, seals and whales. We had already found plastic pollution in Antarctic krill from the Southern Ocean.

An expedition to study Antarctic krill and the baleen whales that feed upon them is underway in the Antarctic Peninsula. The project is funded by the UK Government through Darwin Plus. The team of ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. Nearly all of Antarctica’s iconic wildlife, from penguins to seals and whales, depend on krill, tiny crustaceans that make up the base of the ...

Humpback whales in Charlotte Bay exhibited a preference for larger krill, suggesting that they are selective foragers that optimize their feeding strategies based on prey characteristics[2].

A jar of krill specimens with visible eye spots. Blue whales eat huge volumes of these small crustaceans. Blue whales eat krill - tiny, shrimp-like crustaceans that live throughout Earth's oceans. The ...

This month teams are focusing on two major projects: one on whales and their consumption of krill (a shrimp-like creature that’s abundant in the Southern Ocean), and another on populations of ...