The whales join a small but growing group of animals, including great apes, magpies, and cleaner wrasse fish, who share "this ...

More than 20 years ago, four female beluga whales were kept together at the New York Aquarium of the Wildlife Conservation ...

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Alaska's Cook Inlet was home to nearly 1,300 beluga whales in the late 1970s, but today the population hovers around 300. Despite almost two decades of recovery work, the whales aren't bouncing back.

Animal rights groups are now calling on the Canadian government to intervene and seize the whales. Over two dozen beluga whales at the now-defunct Marineland amusement in Niagara Falls, Ontario, could ...

Sometimes we come across video clips that are not what they first appear to be. This YouTube clip of a beluga whale playing with a rugby ball is one such video. In the viral clip (it has been watched ...

Dozens of captive beluga whales trapped in a defunct amusement park may be spared euthanasia after the Canadian federal government conditionally approved their export to the U.S. In a Facebook post ...

A defunct marine park in Canada threatened to slaughter its remaining 30 beluga whales if the federal government doesn’t fork over emergency funding to care for the animals by Tuesday night.

A beluga whale at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium had a groundbreaking surgery that is poised to change the future of beluga whale care worldwide. Kimalu, a 12-year-old 1000 pound beluga whale, is recovering ...