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

The blue whale is the biggest animal that has ever ... They have a thick layer of fat under their skin. This fat, called blubber, keeps the heat in and the cold out. Whales' large size also ...

Scientists have spent a lot of time thinking about how the nutrients in whale feces—also known as whale pump —benefit species ...

“One big difference is that whales are often traveling thousands of miles across ocean basins–great whales undertake the ...

Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people think of plants as the lungs of the planet, taking in carbon dioxide, and ...

So the prevailing mood is a dark, ponderous blue — a lot of stern ... whose obsessive pursuit of the whale Moby Dick has drowned his humanity, and Starbuck, the sensible first mate who tries ...