A beluga whale is hard to mistake for a mermaid unless you're at sea for months, and it's the first thing you see. Here's how it happened.

Beluga feed on fish, crustaceans, and worms. The whale is related to the tusked “unicorn” whale known as the narwhal. The beluga is not related to the sturgeon of the same name, which has been ...

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 ...

And yet a single beluga managed to make his voice ... recurring images of the two whales dutifully reporting to the side of the Navy training vessel, receiving both spoken and hand-signaled ...

When it comes to quirky animal behaviors, few are more charming than 2,000-pound beluga whales blowing delicate ... Pairs released bubble streams as they swam side by side—apparently in a ...

The characterful face of a beluga whale. Unlike other whales, they can turn their heads from side to side.© JohnL/ Shutterstock We call them beluga whales, but their scientific name, Delphinapterus ...

Beluga whales are the only whales, other than narwhals, a closely related species, that live exclusively in arctic and subarctic waters. Like many other arctic animals, belugas are white. In fact, the ...

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 ...