Whales don’t use Q-tips and that turns out to be a good thing for science. Using built-up earwax taken from a blue whale carcass, researchers have been able to reconstruct a picture of its life by the ...

What's the best way to get to know a whale? No, not over a nice seafood dinner — apparently, it's through its ear wax... A team led by researchers from Baylor University extracted a foot-long rod of ...

A whale's earwax is built up in layers and even tells its age like a trees rings. But scientists have discovered the wax holds much more information than its age. Pollutants and hormones become ...

Layers of wax in the marine mammals' ears can be read like tree rings, scientists say, recording a whale's age and also information about... Earwax From Whales Keeps Record Of Ocean Contaminants How ...