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

Marine wildlife - including whales, penguins, seals and seabirds – all feed ... a healthy ocean - part of a virtuous cycle: Whales eat krill, krill eat microscopic plants that live in sea ...

Crabeater seals have complex, jagged teeth, which are believed to function as a sieve to retain krill in their mouths ... efficiency differs between fish-eating and zooplankton-eating seals ...

Although they breathe air, seals are most at home in the water and may stay at sea for weeks at a time eating fish, squid, birds, and tiny shrimp-like krill. Fur seals may swim by themselves or ...

Krill are the centre of the Southern Ocean food web above the seabed, sustaining penguins, seals and the world’s largest animals ... 0.3 million tonnes of carbon to the deep ocean – equivalent to the ...

The blue whale has one of the largest appetites of any animal, eating up to four tonnes of krill every day. Blue whales ... They feed on fish and squid like other toothed whale species, but will also ...

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 ...

British scientists are hoping to monitor Antarctic krill from space as the species faces growing threats from climate change ...

That’s especially true around the Antarctic Peninsula, which happens to be a hotspot for both krill and the larger creatures that eat it. “We will increase our investment in the Antarctic area ...

British scientists are hoping to monitor Antarctic krill from space as the species ... sustaining penguins, seals and the world’s largest animals, including blue whales. They also help to ...