Lost Giant Poop Disrupts Whole Planet

Lost Giant Poop Disrupts Whole Planet,
October 26, 2015,
By News Staff,
Science 2.0,
Source: University of Vermont,

Giants once roamed the earth. Oceans teemed with ninety-foot-long whales, huge land animals ate vast quantities of food and, yes, deposited vast quantities of poop.

A new study shows that these whales and outsized land mammals, as well as seabirds and migrating fish, played a vital role in keeping the planet fertile by transporting nutrients from ocean depths and spreading them across seas, up rivers, and deep inland, even to mountaintops.