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

A mysterious whale that has puzzled scientists for decades may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing ...

Videos show narwhals using their tusks in several ways, including prodding and flipping a fish. It’s the first reported evidence of the whales playing.

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Once four-legged land animals, whales evolved from ancestors Pakicetus, which lived along ancient Pakistani shores ...

The long, spiral tusks of narwhals could be used by these Arctic whales to stun or even kill prey, according to wildlife researchers who have spied on these elusive creatures using drones. They ...

Since so little is understood about this whale species, researchers like O’Corry-Crowe and his colleagues are working diligently to conduct studies to document narwhals’ unknown behaviors to ...

Some of the most famous whale species are humpback whales, sperm whales, blue whales and narwhals. Despite their name, killer whales — or orcas — are not whales. Instead, they are part of the ...

The long, spiral tusks of narwhals could be used by these Arctic whales to stun or even kill prey, according to wildlife researchers who have spied on these elusive creatures using drones.

Sometimes, the narwhals also used their tusks to ward off food thieves like seagulls. The tusks may be lengthy but are by no means unwieldy. According to the researchers, the whales showed ...