Beluga whale - Wikipedia
Spiracle in the back of a beluga's head The skull. Like most toothed whales, the beluga has a compartment found at the centre of the forehead that contains an organ used for echolocation …
Beluga whale’s squishy head explained - Whale Scientists
2020年7月25日 · In this video, you can see a person pressing their hand on a beluga whale’s squishy head. The video had a lot of people enraged because they believed the person was …
The whale skull stumped scientists for years. Now they say it’s a …
2019年6月20日 · It was a mystery for nearly 30 years. A hunter turned over a whale skull that appeared to share the characteristics of both a beluga whale and a narwhal. Scientists were …
Scientists Find a Never-Before-Seen Hybrid: A Narluga
2019年6月20日 · All three whales had evenly gray skin and pectoral flippers akin to belugas’. But their tails looked like narwhal tails. Now University of Copenhagen researchers find the skull …
Hybridization between two high Arctic cetaceans confirmed by …
2019年6月20日 · In 1990, an unusual whale skull was collected from a hunter on an island in Disko Bay, West Greenland (Fig. 2). Using 12 morphological measurements as well as teeth …
What happens if you cross a narwhal with a beluga? You get a …
2019年6月21日 · The narluga, as they've called it, is the offspring of a female narwhal and a male beluga—two species that have never been known to mate before, the researchers write in …
Unusual Skull Turns Out to Be Ultra-Rare Hybrid of a Narwhal And …
2019年6月20日 · A skull long suspected of belonging to a rare Arctic hybrid has now had its unusual biology confirmed via DNA analysis. According to the results, this strange beast had a …
Narwhals and belugas can interbreed - ScienceDaily
2019年6月20日 · DNA and stable isotope analysis of an anomalous skull from the Natural History Museum of Denmark has allowed researchers to confirm the existence of a narwhal-beluga …
'Narluga': Narwhal-beluga whale hybrid discovered in study of skull
2019年6月25日 · 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 …
The head of a beluga is dominated by the melon, a fat filled area that obscures the rostrum, or upper jaw (Reeves et al., 2002). The neck of a beluga is very flexible, unlike many other …