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Here’s what we do know. Like their cousins, beluga whales, narwhals spend their whole lives in cold Arctic seas. Most are ...

Narwhals belong to a family called Monodontidae, which contains two species: the narwhal and the beluga, which is also known as the ‘white whale’. Scientists are still on the fence about the ...

Narwhal (a) and beluga (b) individuals detected from panchromatic WorldView-3 satellite images at a 1:265 scale. Republished under a CC BY license, with permission from Maxar Technologies ...

Scientists who fitted heart rate-monitoring tags to Arctic narwhals have discovered a strange paradox in how the animals respond to threats. When these tusked whales are frightened, their hearts ...

Writing on Facebook, Ms Steffen said Narwhal, named after a species of whale that has a single large "tusk", had visited the vet on Tuesday. And X-rays had showed his secondary tail, about a third ...

The tame beluga whale approached Norwegian fishermen in 2019, wearing a harness, leading to speculation that it was an escaped Russian "spy whale" [Norwegian Orca Survey] The mystery as to why a ...