How Much of the Ocean Is Whale Pee (and Worse)?
By Mindy Weisberger, Senior Writer | June 21, 2017 04:52pm ET
The impressive quantities of waste produced by a whale don't go to waste.
If you enjoy swimming, snorkeling, surfing or scuba diving in the ocean, at some point you may have wondered how much of what you were floating in originated in the body of a marine animal.
The ocean is home to millions of known species — about 2.2 million, according to a study published in August 2011 in the journal PLOS Biology — which translates into untold numbers of creatures, large and small, from microscopic zooplankton to enormous marine mammals that weigh hundreds of thousands of pounds.
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