The narwhal-beluga hybrid skull. Mikkel Høegh Post/Natural History Museum Of Denmark In the 1980s, a subsistence hunter caught three unusual-looking whales in Greenland’s Disko Bay. They had flippers ...

Skull was donated by an Inuit hunter in 1990. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A mysterious whale skull came from the first and only known hybrid of a beluga and a narwhal, a new ...

The body of a narwhal, a species of toothed whale normally found in Arctic waters, has washed up off the coast of the Republic of Ireland. The female narwhal was discovered by a family walking on ...

Chaos theory improves understanding of Arctic narwhal behavior, with the aim of helping efforts to protect this vulnerable species. Researchers have used the mathematical equations of chaos theory to ...

One of the most recognizable animals of the sea, the narwhal, is even more unique than their looks would suggest, according to a new study of their genetics released this week. It found that the ...

But, years after revisiting the anomaly, a group of Danish researchers decided it was a hybrid whale all along. The unique skull, they say, was the result of a forbidden romance between a narwhal ...

WWF is supporting a new project to track narwhals, Arctic whales best known for the long tusk that projects forward from their faces. Canada - WWF is supporting a new project to track narwhals, Arctic ...

Scientists who work for the nonprofit Group for Research and Education on Marine Mammals (GREMM) recently came across a rare sight while following a pod of ten young male beluga whales in the St.

Arctic whale’s discovery on a Donegal beach has triggered a major scientific examination and renewed warnings about climate impacts ...

So Narwhals. You probably already know that Narwhals inhabit the Arctic Ocean. But it’s not like if you went to the Arctic there would be back to back Narwhals. There is no big Narwhal carpet you ...

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