NOAA Fisheries is monitoring the situation. Scientists raise red flags after observing concerning new whale behavior: 'We're ...

This insulating blubber accounts for around 40 percent of a beluga's body weight, said Richard, so it can be quite prominent along the sides of the swimming whales as they move around, she said.

Comprehensive screening analysis of organohalogen compounds in blubber samples of 11 toothed whale species stranded on Japanese coasts revealed species-specific accumulation profiles, with a total ...

In a video by the Ocean Exploration Trust, scientists return to a whale fall off the coast of British Columbia for the third ...

The nearly 1,065-pound whale is currently recovering in a medical habitat at the aquarium, but an expert says she's not yet ...

Whales are some of the largest known creatures to exist (or, in the case of the blue whale, to have ever existed) on Earth, with some species weighing up to 200 tons—and while many find the ...

When baleen whale calves are born they have underdeveloped blubber, which is the layer of fat that keeps them warm. As their blubber isn’t fully developed it isn’t thick enough to keep them ...

I know it's hard to see in the plastic, but it gives you a sense of the scale of how big a pilot whale is, about 18 feet. Wow. Blubber tissue is one of the really important ones we take.

On June 27, Janet Neilson, a biologist with the Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, saw an adult humpback whale near ...

An endangered humpback whale was recently spotted showing severe injuries from an apparent collision with a boat near Glacier ...