The man noticed the whale had already been sliced open and so decided to jump in, possibly owing to the fact he had been drinking. He stayed within the decaying blubber for more than two hours and ...

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

Dozens of students from the Kenai Peninsula College's Semester by the Bay program in white hazmat suits and Xtratufs wielded flensing knives — used to separate whale blubber from meat — to ...

Are blubber and fat the same thing? Why blubber is always fat, but fat isn’t always blubber ...

Vitamins are classified as either fat-soluble or water-soluble based on how the body absorbs and stores them. The fat-soluble vitamins—A, D, E, and K—are absorbed with fat and stored in the liver, ...

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 ...

a male beluga whale can weigh up to 3,000 pounds and grow up to 16 feet long. ©Luna Vandoorne/Shutterstock.com These social animals can live in both salt and freshwater. Beluga whales live around the ...

Subcutaneous fat is the fat you can "pinch." Found throughout the body just beneath your skin, subcutaneous fat plays an important role in protecting your health, but having too much can put you at ...