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 ...

Or to a noxious surfeit of human noise ... has studied a subset of the beluga population in the St. Lawrence estuary known as “solitary sociables”: whales separated from their families ...

Unlike other whales, whose neck vertebrae are fused, belugas can turn their heads from side to side. The melon in their head can also change shape while making sounds and their face muscles can move, ...

Here’s a video of a beluga whale mimicking human speech: The post Beluga Whale Gives Up Its Own Language to Speak Dolphin appeared first on Roaring Earth.

Lawrence, to near collapse. 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 ...

Marine biologists have long been intrigued by the apparent repulsion exhibited by the Beluga whales towards artificial ... The average human would suffer severe hypothermic shock if left in ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The white beluga whale is a very distinctive species. Unlike other cetaceans their vertebrae are not fused so they are able move their heads laterally. A strange melon-like lump on their forehead ...