Like the legendary Moby Dick, the full-grown beluga whale is snowy white. Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims ...

Another beluga whale has died at Canada’s Marineland, a Niagara Falls aquarium, bringing the total to five beluga deaths this year alone and 17 since 2019. The ongoing string of fatalities has ...

The peculiar tale of a beluga whale believed to have been a Russian "spy" appears to have been solved. A marine mammal expert suggests the animal was likely trained to guard a Russian naval base ...

The mammal was known locally as Hvaldimir, a pun on the Norwegian word for whale, "hval," and Russian President Vladimir Putin's first name A beluga whale suspected of being a Russian spy found ...

Beluga whales are some of the sea's most delightful animals, with their melon-shaped foreheads, curious personalities, and playful behavior. Thanks to Polar Bears International (PBI) and Explore ...

A beluga whale seen in the Thames for a second day is "swimming strongly and feeding normally", the RSPCA has said. The animal welfare charity said the whale, nicknamed Benny, had moved towards ...

On Oct. 1, Protected Species Observers working along the Don Young Port of Alaska reported they saw an entangled beluga whale in the Cook Inlet, according to an Oct. 24 news release by the ...

ABASHIRI, Hokkaido--Fisherman Yoichi Ishigaki has such fond memories of a lone but sociable beluga whale he bonded with while battling cancer that he erected a memorial to his “friend” after ...