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The St. Lawrence River has welcomed an unusual group of visitors in recent years: a pod of beluga whales that appears to have adopted a lost young narwhal. Now, with the male narwhal reaching ...

with the beluga having characteristics of both. Dolphins and belugas both fit into the category of toothed whales, as opposed to baleen whales that filter food out of water, like blue whales. Belugas ...

The joke was on us Tuesday morning when an Instagram post claimed a narwhal had been spotted in local waters for the first ...

The alabaster beluga's dark cousin, the narwhal is not a conventionally beautiful animal. Its unlovely name means "corpse whale," because its splotchy flesh reminded Norse sailors of a drowned body.

The authors report that the individual may have been genetically 56 percent beluga and 46 percent narwhal. The unnamed Inuit hunter who caught this animal says he hadn’t seen such a strange whale ...