heavy bones can offset buoyancy from body fat and blubber, allowing the animal to maintain neutral buoyancy in water or—in the case of the hippopotamus—to walk on river beds. The fossil whale ...

Because of their thick blubber, right whales also float accommodatingly after they have been killed. Populations of these whales were decimated during the whaling heydays of the 17th, 18th ...

Over the weekend, a 38-foot-long female gray whale washed ashore at Dockweiler State Beach, prompting an outpouring of grief ...

What animals live in the coldest areas of the planet? We've done the research! Meet the animals thriving in earth's polar ...