blubber

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Their evidence included finding stone harpoon points that hadn’t been used since the mid-1800s embedded in the blubber of whales recently killed by traditional whalers.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2024

On the business end, there is a 3cm metal tip that plucks a piece of skin and blubber from the whale’s body.

From BBC • Jun. 7, 2024

These currently unmonitored chemicals were also present in the blubber of dolphin carcasses that had washed ashore, as well as in the sediment collected near the known dumping area.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2024

Typically, testing for DDT looks for four to eight chemicals, but a 2016 paper co-authored by Hoh and Aluwihare identified 45 DDT-related chemicals in the blubber of dolphins from off the coast of Southern California.

From Science Daily • May 6, 2024

They have to lift the blubber sheets on hooks and feed it into the ‘try-works,’ where the blubber, it’s all reduced with, you know, fire and heat.

From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson