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 flippers ...
Thirty years ago, an Inuit man in west Greenland subsistence-hunting for whales shot a trio of strange cetaceans with front fins like belugas and tails like narwhals (the so-called "unicorns of the ...
A team of researchers has compiled the first and only evidence that narwhals and beluga whales can breed successfully. DNA and stable isotope analysis of an anomalous skull from the Natural History ...
These majestic creatures make their homes in the dark, frigid waters of the Arctic. In fact, narwhal are some of the deepest swimming creatures, diving to at least 800 meters (2,625 feet) over 15 ...
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 ...