On Thursday, dozens of volunteers gathered on the Anchorage mudflats to cut apart the 47-foot-long juvenile fin whale that ...

Sea snails, bristle worms and shrimp devour any remaining scraps of blubber ... deep whale fall in 2002. Adrian explains, 'These are the most important animals responsible for the process of breaking ...

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 ...

During summer, whales gorge on krill and fish, accumulating thick layers of blubber that sustain them ... they carry massive reserves of stored fat. Pregnant females, with the highest energy ...

WWF, the conservation organization, today warned that an initial toxic analysis on Norwegian Minke whale meat and blubber samples destined for human consumption has shown that these contain some of ...