A majority of krill fishing companies have announced their commitment to voluntarily stop harvesting the tiny crustaceans from vast areas of the Antarctic Peninsula, including around important ...

Blue whales are the largest living mammals on Earth, capable of growing as long as three full-length school buses. As you might come to expect, large animals have large appetites, and so blue whales ...

Meaning: ‘Krill’ are small, shrimp-like marine crustaceans that belong to the order Euphausiacea. They are a vital food ...

Around 11:30 a.m. or so, you might find yourself hankering for lunch. The reason for this is that our biological rhythms are trained to tell ourselves when we are hungry, and when we do get that ...

Krill may be small, but scientists at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) say that these tiny crustaceans play an important role in the transportation of carbon within the oceans. Not only are they a ...

Baleen whales, the largest animals in the world, eat three times more prey than previous estimates suggested. The discovery implies that these whales play a larger role in sustaining marine ecosystems ...

Stephen Nicol is here to change your mind about krill: They’re not microscopic and they’re far from boring. The biologist is so sick of people misunderstanding his study subjects that he’s even gotten ...

Biologists looked into the abyss and the abyss looked back, with lots of little compound krill eyes. The shrimplike Antarctic krill, a major player in polar ecosystems, is supposedly a creature of the ...

In the heart of their Antarctic habitat, krill populations are projected to decline about 30% this century due to widespread negative effects from human-driven climate change. However, these effects ...