A dog-and-human partnership is taking their act out to sea with remarkable results. NPR shared the story of Jack, a blue heeler mix, and Collette Yee, a bounder, in tracking down elusive whale poop ...

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It’s not exactly glamorous, but whale poo might just be one of the most underrated forces in nature. While most of us don’t give a second thought to what comes out of the back end of a blue whale, ...

Dio has a very specific skillset which you don’t run into everyday: he’s been trained to help researchers locate whale scat–and he’s able to sniff it up to a mile away from his research vessel. Watch ...