Baleen whales are some of the most unique and breathtaking animals. These huge marine mammals are some of the biggest to have ...

Baleen whales are unique and breathtaking animals and are known for undertaking some of the longest migrations in the world.

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 Friday, scientists took a skin and blubber sample from that whale, and determined that it was an adult female. Cal Academy and East Bay Regional Parks arranged to have the dead gray whale towed ...

Sea snails, bristle worms and shrimp devour any remaining scraps of blubber or muscle. They will also eat organic matter that is emitted from the carcass. Polychaete worms such as Vigtorniella flokati ...

How do you take apart a whale? With flensing knives, meat hooks, plastic sleds and a crowd of people. On Thursday, dozens of volunteers gathered on the Anchorage mudflats to cut apart the 47-foot ...

“He was as fat as a whale but I think that time in the paddock did him the world of good physically and mentally. Early on he impressed me, he had a beautiful action.” There was no stopping ...

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 ...