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 ...

November, scientists have harvested samples of everything from a fin whale, from the animal's heart, blubber, skin, baleen and lung.

Perhaps the most unusual meal comes from Iceland whose inhabitants can be found sampling a dish of Mattak, which is whale skin complete with fatty blubber and 'kivak' - the raw flesh of Arctic auk ...

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 ...