The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever existed ... They have a thick layer of fat under their skin. This fat, ...

In the ages preceding the rise of the whaling industry, humans could only obtain blue whale meat and blubber when a beaching occurred. As whaling technology improved, hunters were able to pursue ...

A hundred years ago, there used to be a lot of blue and other baleen whales in the oceans, but whaling for their blubber almost made them extinct. Oddly enough, the decline in whale population led ...

DESCRIPTION: Bowheads are enormous whales with stocky, blubber-insulated bodies and thick, triangular-shaped heads. They are blue-black in color with a large white spot on their lower jaw. There may ...

Analysis of blubber samples from 11 toothed whale species stranded on Japanese coasts identified over 300 organohalogen compounds, revealing species-specific accumulation profiles.