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 ...

Beluga whales are closely related to narwhals, and both species are adapted to life in cold, Arctic waters.This illustration is from the Natural History Museum archives. Plate 47 from British Mammals ...

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 ...

The St. Lawrence River has welcomed an unusual group of visitors in recent years: a pod of beluga whales that appears to have adopted a lost young narwhal. Now, with the male narwhal reaching ...

It’s not known exactly why the narwhals fared so dismally in captivity, particularly given that the species’s closest relative, the beluga, can survive a number of years, or even decades ...

Narwhals, which are related to beluga whales, are found here and throughout other parts of Canada, Greenland, Alaska and Russia. Over several days, drones were flown over a pod of narwhals ...