The 7-month-old beluga whale at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago on March 6, 2025, After more than 1,000 votes were cast by aquarium members, the beluga calf was named Opus. (Terrence Antonio James ...

I've been gaga for beluga whales ever since I was a little kid (along with probably every other 80s/90s kid who grew up ...

"One of the main criteria for the area that was chosen is to be able to protect 100 per cent of the habitat of beluga whales," said Guilbeault. Parks Canada goes whale watching in Saguenay-Saint ...

At least three orca whales were spotted swimming through Bellingham Bay on Tuesday. Bellingham resident Nate Wallace captured a video of the whales at about 4:30 p.m. as they were swimming south in ...

Because of its availability, the small white Beluga whale in northern waters was the first object of this research, prior to obtaining the record of a large whale, which is our ultimate aim. This ...

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If the whale’s immune system cannot fight off the invaders, it will die. The disease may influence whale strandings, as when many beluga whales infected with toxoplasmosis beached themselves near the ...

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Now we can add whale urine to that list, according to a paper published in the journal Nature Communications. “Lots of people ...

Even for the world’s largest animals, “when you gotta go, you gotta go.” Whale’s volcanic poop offers up a treasure trove of biological information and nutrients for the ocean. Not to be ...

Whales do more than just swim the seas—they power the ocean's ecosystem. By transporting nutrients from deep waters to the ...