Whale meat was available as an alternative to beef, pork and chicken at a time when food rationing was still in place. And whale oil was used as a lubricant in industry and to make margarine.

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Hopeful signs for declining grey whale population Unlike humans and other mammals, baleen whales don’t have teeth or vocal cords. Instead, in their voice boxes, they have a U-shaped tissue that ...

A diver who ended up trapped in the mouth of a massive whale joked that he didn't have “a whale of a time” but called the unique encounter “a very special event.” Rainer Schimpf ...