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"We probably know a lot more about the brains of grasshoppers than we do about narwhals." The alabaster beluga's dark cousin, the narwhal is not a conventionally beautiful animal. Its unlovely ...

From the genome of a mystery-animal’s skull found in West Greenland in 1990, scientists have identified the creature as the male offspring of a female narwhal and male beluga, they reported yesterday ...