Whale poop is vital to ocean's carbon cycle

voraciousbrain:

I don’t know why, but it always makes me really happy when poop is a possible solution to a problem.  And to quote Stephen Nicol, he’s found “huge amounts of iron in whale poo”.  Bless him and his poop sampling.

baleen whale

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