Spread the loveA popular 12-year-old beluga whale, Kimalu, living among eight other whales at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium, ...

Beluga whale Kimalu wakes from anesthesia after a first-of-its-kind surgery to remove cysts at Shedd Aquarium.

To ensure Kimalu could wake up smoothly, she was surrounded by her keepers and even played noises from the rest of Shedd’s ...

The nearly 1,065-pound whale is currently recovering in a medical habitat at the aquarium, but an expert says she's not yet ...

Beluga whales, also known as ‘white whales’, are social and smart marine mammals that are well adapted to living in very cold waters. Their incredible echolocation abilities, however, make them ...

Beluga whales can live up to 80 years. Mother belugas give birth to babies that are gray and weigh well over 100 pounds. When they assume their full adult coloration of pure snow white, they ...

The face of a beluga has an eerily personable look, and the ones in the aquarium were clearly interested in the strange creatures looking at them from the other side of the glass.

Watching a laid-back white whale swim past again and again, looking inquiringly to see what decisions will be reached, could result in consensus that beluga whales deserve all the protection we ...

Attitudes differ about whether beluga whales should be displayed in an enormous aquarium for people to watch and learn about. Some animal rights organizations object to the removal of any belugas ...

A study from 2020 also revealed that beluga whales form complicated and long-term social bonds that include both kin and non-kin relationships, which mirrors the complexity of human social habits.

A beluga whale named Qinu had an adorable reaction to Olivia Walsh and Gavin Hulberg's engagement at Georgia Aquarium on Dec. 18. 'Qinu’s behavior at the window was her own — she was not ...