A couple spiraled out. They looked like a mix of narwhal and beluga, but with too many for a narwhal, too few for a beluga. The hunter told the scientist that the skull had belonged to a strange ...

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 ...

Languages: English. You can get in touch with Robyn by emailing [email protected] Researchers are poised to see whether a lost narwhal that was adopted by a pod of beluga whales a few years ago ...

But Larsen’s new kills were neither. Their skin wasn’t white, nor mottled like a narwhal’s, but uniformly grey. The flippers were beluga-like, but the tails were narwhal-esque. In all his ...

A band of beluga whales took in a lost narwhal and made it one of their own, researchers said after discovering the lone whale swimming and playing with its new friends. The narwhal was discovered ...

It was a strange specimen: larger than either a skull from a beluga or narwhal whale, but with teeth that looked somehow between the two. The hunter gave an interview through a translator ...

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 ...

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 ...

A strange-looking whale skull in a Denmark museum is under a new spotlight after technology confirmed that it belonged to a creature that was half-narwhal and half-beluga, a study from the ...

We are an outlier. So are whales. Beluga whales and narwhals are the latest known addition to the ranks of menopausal mammals, a group of scientists reported Monday in the journal Scientific Reports.