Blubber is a thick layer of fat found under the skin of modern marine mammals such as whales. Its discovery in this ancient "sea monster" - an ichthyosaur - appears to confirm the animal was warm ...

Although whale oil is no longer used for these purposes, whale blubber is still sometimes rendered into fat. The robust layer ...

heavy bones can offset buoyancy from body fat and blubber, allowing the animal to maintain neutral buoyancy in water or—in ...

Because of their thick blubber, right whales also float accommodatingly after they have been killed. Populations of these whales were decimated during the whaling heydays of the 17th, 18th ...

Plastics are attracted to fats – they’re lipophilic – and so believed to be easily attracted to blubber, the sound-producing melon on a toothed whale’s forehead, and the fat pads along the lower jaw ...

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 ...

Scientists have also drawn on historical evidence – the harpoon tips embedded in the animals’ blubber. The study notes that in 2007, a whale was taken in a traditional hunt and found to have ...