Hvaldimir, a beloved whale believed to have escaped a past life as a Russian spy, was found dead over the weekend in what animal rights organizations say were unnatural circumstances. The beluga — ...

Belugas are harder to study than most whales as they spend so much time under the Arctic ice. The post Beluga whales ‘swap ...

We often celebrate medical breakthroughs for humans because we see ourselves in them. We can imagine someone benefiting that we know, maybe even ourselves. But we want to take a minute to shout out a ...

Among marine mammals, beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) are particularly difficult to study in their icy habitat. To ...

Prepossessing, alluring, enigmatic. If someone uses these descriptors, they might be talking about a person they find attractive. If they add graceful, charismatic and supple to the description, they ...

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ON HUDSON BAY — Playful large white beluga whales bring joy and healing to Hudson Bay. Their happy chirps leap out in an environment and economy threatened by the warming water melting sea ice, ...