Mother humpbacks can lose up to one-third their body weight when nursing. [VID: How much milk does a humpback whale calf drink in a day? Nursing calves drink about 50 gallons of milk per day. To keep this in perspective, health experts recommend adult humans drink a half-gallon of water every day. At 50% fat content -- five times that of human breast milk -- whale milk is incredibly nutritious. Humpback whales do not feed during the months they are on the breeding grounds. Thus, the mother produ

Whale oil and camphene were costly, smoky, and dangerous. In 1846, Nova Scotian physician-geologist Abraham Gesner distilled a clean, cheap lamp fuel he called kerosene—first shown in Charlottetown—then patented and mass-marketed from New York in the 1850s. After Drake’s 1859 oil well, kerosene became refining’s main product, building the petroleum market at home #fblifestyle | TerrifyingMyths

Did we find the rarest whale in the world??? Read on... This is what we believe to be the extremely rare Flue whale, a hybrid between the two largest animals on the planet, the Blue and Fin whale! With blue whale populations estimated at 10,000-25,000 and Fin whales at 100,000 globally, if even 0.1% of blue and fin whales mated (which is very generous) that results in around 10-100 individual hybrids worldwide and realistically it's likely much less!!! Which makes spotting one a lucky, once in a