Terrifying moment a beluga whale lunges and bites at divers underwater in an aquarium. Tourists watched in horror as the ...

Hidden beneath Arctic waters, beluga whales have long kept their family lives a mystery. By analyzing DNA from more than 600 belugas in Alaska’s Bristol Bay over 13 years, researchers uncovered a ...

One skull belonged to an extinct right whale species called Balaenella brachyrhynus. Using microCT scans, scientists found ...

Under the shade of recently planted poplars in northeastern Afghanistan, village leader Ghulam Ali Poya is proud to see ...

Canada's government endorsed a plan Wednesday to move the last remaining captive whales from a shuttered theme park in Ontario to aquariums in the United States and Spain — a plan that could save them ...

A fossil whale skull with a shark tooth still embedded inside suggests that large sharks once hunted or scavenged in the ...

Beluga whales confirmed able to recognize themselves in mirrors Scientists confirmed in a study published in journal PLOS One on May 20 that Beluga whales are able to recognize themselves in mirrors.

In hours of underwater video footage from a New York aquarium, a beluga whale named Natasha stretches her neck, pirouettes, nods, and shakes her head in front of a two-way mirror. Her daughter Maris ...

The researchers studied four captive belugas housed at the New York Aquarium of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Marine Mind / Abigail Carleen Dahl, CC-BY 4.0 Belugas are highly intelligent marine ...

For humans, recognizing our reflection comes naturally, and we barely give it a second thought. Called mirror self-recognition (MSR), it is widely considered a sign of self-awareness and cognitive ...

(Johannesburg) – Vigilantes in South Africa have carried out violent xenophobic attacks targeting African and Asian foreign nationals in recent weeks, with little or insufficient apparent response ...

Since March, the world has watched live as a humpback whale lay stranded on a sandbank in German waters, far from the North Sea. The stranded humpback whale was found in poor health, tangled in ...