For mammals without hair, insulation is accomplished by blubber, a thick layer of fat tissue which helps to insulate an animal’s body because fat does not transfer heat as well as muscle and skin.

Dr Anthony Herrel and Dr Anne-Claire Fabre began the dissection by removing the blubber When the porpoise stranded, staff from Falklands Conservation noted that the animal looked underweight. This was ...

Cetaceans are higher trophic animals in the marine ecosystem and ... specific accumulation profiles of organohalogen compounds in blubber samples of 11 species of toothed whales, archived in ...

The week kicked off with a whole-school launch event led by science leader, Mrs Beazley. Pupils rotated through different ...

lobsters and a host of other scavenging animals eat the blubber and muscles down to the bone. A single whale can provide animals with sustenance for up to two years during this initial scavenging ...