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According to Dr Shpak, Andruha/Hvaldimir had first been captured in 2013 in the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia's Far East. A year ...

Narwhals are identifiable by their long spiral tusks, which may assist in navigation and communication. Arctic cod have ...

Former Canadian astronaut Marc Garneau boldly went where no one had gone before by answering The Narwhal’s inaugural Moose ...

Here’s what we do know. Like their cousins, beluga whales, narwhals spend their whole lives in cold Arctic seas. Most are found in the Davis Strait and Baffin Bay area between Canada and Greenland, as ...

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 ...

They are elusive, but the "unicorn" of the sea not only exists in some of the coldest water on earth but thrives.

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 ...

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 ...

The magnificent narwhal - a beast that has inspired monarchs and intrigued scientists - has quite the reputation. The spotted whales, found mostly in Greenland and Canada, are striking because of ...