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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...