Throughout this time baleen whales eat much less or even not at all as ... When baleen whale calves are born they have underdeveloped blubber, which is the layer of fat that keeps them warm.

Humpback whales are among the most majestic and widely studied marine mammals on Earth. Every year, they undertake one of the ...

Their method uses carbon isotopes of fatty acids to better understand what migratory species, such as killer whales, and Arctic predators, such as polar bears, eat and how they accumulate harmful ...

Wildlife rescuers are struggling to keep up with the demand to help stranded and sick marine life along the West Coast.

But some whale experts view Carrier’s theory, presented in the June issue of The Journal of Experimental Biology, as so much blubber. To be sure, researchers don’t know the exact function of ...

It took her 172 days and because whales don't eat when they migrate ... They have a layer of fat called blubber, which helps them float in the water and keeps them warm. Baby seals are called ...

Hundreds of years of unregulated hunting had left many whale species on the brink of extinction: during the twentieth century Antarctic whalers killed two million whales in the area that, since 1994, ...

Following 30 years of filming wildlife documentaries for channels such as BBC and National Geographic, Whidbey resident ...

For a week and a half, the whale's tail was wrapped in green gill netting, which sliced into its blubber like barbed ... in seabirds and mammals that eat anchovies, sardines, and crustaceans ...