On November 12, 1970, in Florence, Oregon, a 45-foot, eight-ton sperm whale washed up on the beach. At the time, this beach ...

Toxic chemicals are accumulating in the bodies of dolphins and whales, according to two new studies, and concentrations tend to be highest in the most populated and developed areas. The findings are ...

Evan Bernick is a visiting legal fellow in the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Nancy Black has dedicated her career to the research and conservation ...

Scientists from Stockholm University and the Swedish Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with partners in Greenland and Canada, have identified a previously undocumented class of PFAS (poly- ...

Cutting through a 6-inch-thick layer of blubber demands a sharp knife. But as veterinary pathologist Kathy Burek prepared to slice into the abdomen of a dead gray whale, many of her knives were dull.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kate Winslet speaks during WE Day UK. (Photo: Samir Hussein/WireImage) Judy Blume’s Blubber is a contemporary classic children’s ...

To help in the future monitoring efforts of an endangered population of resident false killer whales in Hawaiian waters, where only 167 individuals are estimated to remain, researchers at the ...

The fossil of a 180-million-year-old ichthyosaur from the Jurassic era has been discovered and it contains evidence of blubber and skin, making the creature more similar to modern-day dolphins than ...

Fifty years ago, a whale carcass washed ashore near Florence, Oregon, and the authorities wrestled with how to get rid of it. They couldn’t bury it, fearing the 8 tons of rotting flesh and its smell ...

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