In the 20th century, animals such as mules and ligers that had parents of different species were considered biological flukes, but genetic sequencing is beginning to unravel the critical role of ...

"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 ...

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 ...