The Mystic Seaport Museum's new show uses blubber hooks, whale foetuses, scrimshaw and a giant mural to recount how the whale ...

SEE ALSO: Did a nor'easter whip a puffer fish into a tree? An investigation It's blubber. Specifically, long "rails" of extra fatty insulation the mammals store on their sides. "It was just a ...

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Blubber to assess overall body condition Whales and dolphins have a thick layer of blubber under the skin, and changes in this layer are an indicator of the overall body condition and health of ...

He stayed within the decaying blubber for more than two hours and emerged refreshed: “He was quite sober,” the newspaper article noted with credulity, “and ... the rheumatism from which he ...

Like whale blubber, oil as a dominant source of energy will gradually be phased out over the next decades. Here's what that transition may look like. When you purchase through links on our site ...

Tropicalens – stock.adobe.com What was supposed to be a routine analysis of blubber turned into years-long research — with more than a third of the dolphins testing positive for drugs.

In the 1980s, thousands of humpback whales were slaughtered in Brazil for their blubber. After legal protections were introduced, they started repopulating, Reuters reported. Many of the creatures ...