RANDOLPH TWP.- In Lauren Measley and Brianna Costanza’s fourth grade classroom at Ironia Elementary School, students have been exploring external structures that help animals survive, grow ...

It was an arduous but exciting apprenticeship in icy, gale-tossed waters amid oil, whale blood and blubber. On one occasion, the engines were stilled while the ship’s surgeon successfully ...

In the icy realms of the Arctic, polar bears reign supreme. They are perfectly adapted to this frigid environment with their thick layers of blubber and fur, allowing them to swim long distances and ...

The Marine Mammal Center sent a research vessel to take blubber and skin samples of the whale in Alameda on Friday morning, the centers said. Scientists confirmed that that whale was an adult female.

Guests can walk its deck and explore its claustrophobic interior, once filled with blubber, oil and grimy sailors. Image The museum has sought ideas and support from the community on protecting ...

On Friday, scientists took a skin and blubber sample from that whale, and determined that it was an adult female. Cal Academy and East Bay Regional Parks arranged to have the dead gray whale towed ...

ALAMEDA — A dead gray whale was found rolling in the surf off Alameda South Shore Beach, according to the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. The whale marks the fourth ...

A team from the Marine Mammal Center took initial skin and blubber samples via a research vessel on Friday morning, April 18, and identified the whale as an adult female. As of Monday, April 21 ...

“A team from the Center took initial skin and blubber samples via a research vessel on Friday morning, April 18, and identified the whale as an adult female. As of this morning (Monday), the Center ...

They were hunted nearly to extinction in the mid-1800s and again in the early 1900s for their blubber, which was used mainly as fuel to burn oil lamps. In 2016, NOAA reseachers estimated the gray ...

They were hunted nearly to extinction in the mid-1800s and again in the early 1900s for their blubber, which was used mainly as fuel to burn oil lamps. In 2016, NOAA researchers estimated the gray ...