Although whale oil is no longer used for these purposes, whale blubber is still sometimes rendered into fat. The robust layer of fat under the skin of these majestic sea creatures can also be ...

Their vision is great. Killer Whale, orcinus orca, Adult. Image via Depositphotos A: The orca’s blubber is a thick layer of fat beneath the skin that provides insulation, energy storage and buoyancy.

Journalist Ken Wells told us about researching the origins of gumbo, the uses of bear lard and growing up in Bayou Black.

The polar regions are the coldest places on Earth. During the summer, the poles receive 24 hours of sunlight, but during the winter the sun is rarely visible. Animals that inhabit nature’s freezers ...

Polar bears are excellent swimmers and have a thick layer of fat beneath their skin ... and they often huddle together in large groups to maintain warmth. Narwhal whales live in social groups called ...

Their evidence included finding stone harpoon points that hadn’t been used since the mid-1800s embedded in the blubber of whales recently killed by traditional whalers. Analysis of proteins from ...

Those samples have been collected into a database for decades, which is used to identify individual right whales without relying on sight alone. This is especially useful for scientists who want to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. A rare whale seen at a Sydney wharf has delighted and excited scientists and families as it frolicked in the warm summer water.

implanted into the skin and blubber of the animals — to collect more data. So far they haven’t found any significant, or even subtle, impacts of pile driving on fin whales’ behavior.

Rescuers have freed a humpback whale that was caught up in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye. The mammal was spotted by a member of the public being in difficulty at the Invertote salmon ...