Greene believes belugas are a different class to their cold water counterparts due to their gentle nature and capacity to co-exist, even embrace, the presence of humans. In 2009, a captive beluga ...

Belugas are also called white whales, and their unusual color makes them one of the most familiar and easily distinguishable of all the whales. Calves are born gray or even brown and only fade to ...

In the winter they like to swim around thin or moving sea ice, which they can break through to breathe. Although belugas live all around the sea ice of the Arctic, they’re split into around 21 ...

There, the Navy would procure the first belugas for a new Arctic initiative, known as “Cold Ops.” Belugas typically travel in pods of approximately 25 whales, led by a dominant male but bound ...

An ambitious plan in Nova Scotia to build North America's first coastal refuge for captive whales may have hit a dead end.

As they observed belugas at Marineland Park near Toronto, the biologist Michael Noonan and his students discovered a kind of bubble semantics. The whales often expelled big bursts of bubbles ...

Belugas are small whales, measuring up to 15 feet long with a maximum weight of 3,000 pounds. They're bigger than all but the largest dolphins and smaller than most other toothed whales. At birth, ...

belugas trapped in icy Russian 'whale jail' to be released Orcas, belugas trapped in icy Russian 'whale jail' to be released ...

They are also missing the dorsal fin. An extremely shy species, belugas are difficult to find around Svalbard. But we do know that in the summer months they visit to the fjords of Svalbard to mate.

Belugas are small whales, measuring up to 15 feet long with a maximum weight of 3,000 pounds. They're bigger than all but the largest dolphins and smaller than most other toothed whales. At birth, ...

These belugas and later others were housed in Barnum’s American Museum (the last two belugas died in the fire that destroyed this structure in 1865). In the 1870s, many dolphins and belugas were ...

Eighteen belugas, one killer whale and one dolphin have died at Marineland since late 2019, but the company has long defended its treatment of animals, saying the deaths were part of the natural ...