Beluga whales can disappear beneath Arctic sea ice for long stretches, which makes them far tougher to follow than many other whale species. That is why researchers have increasingly turned to ...

A young star called V1298 Tau is giving astronomers a front-row seat to the birth of the galaxy’s most common planets. Four ...

Airbus operates one of the strangest aircraft ever to fly, a purpose built cargo plane designed solely to move oversized aircraft components across Europe. Nicknamed the Beluga, it was created to ...

The health of beluga whales seeking transfer from Canada's shuttered Marineland to new homes in the United States is being ...

The move comes after Marineland presented what it called an urgent rescue solution to the federal government last week.

Several whales at risk of being euthanized at Marineland in Niagara Falls, Ontario, could soon be coming to the United States ...

A drone operator on Sunday captured disturbing footage showing a boat speeding over a gray whale and her newborn calf near the surface off Los Angeles County. Mauricio Tassara’s footage also reveals ...

In the icy waters of Alaska’s Bristol Bay, a new study reveals how a small population of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas) survive the long haul through a surprising strategy: they mate with ...

Researchers in Alaska have discovered that beluga whales have lots of different partners and this “mate switching” could be ...

A n isolated Alaskan population of beluga whales have a population small enough that inbreeding could be a major threat. Yet ...