{"id":707133,"date":"2021-11-03T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707133"},"modified":"2021-11-03T12:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T16:00:09","slug":"worlds-largest-whales-eat-more-than-previously-thought-amplifying-their-role-as-global-ecosystem-engineers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=707133","title":{"rendered":"World&#039;s largest whales eat more than previously thought, amplifying their role as global ecosystem engineers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New research co-authored by Nicholas Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of Natural History, shows evidence that the world&#8217;s largest whales have been sold short. The study, published today in the journal Nature, finds that gigantic baleen whales\u2014such as blue, fin and humpback whales\u2014eat an average of three times more food each year than scientists have previously estimated. By underestimating how much these whales eat, scientists may also have been previously underestimating the importance of these undersea giants to ocean health and productivity.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-11-world-largest-whales-previously-thought.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">World&#8217;s largest whales eat more than previously thought, amplifying their role as global ecosystem engineers<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research co-authored by Nicholas Pyenson, curator of fossil marine mammals at the Smithsonian&#8217;s National Museum of Natural History, shows evidence that the world&#8217;s largest whales have been sold short.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}