A beluga whale is hard to mistake for a mermaid unless you're at sea for months, and it's the first thing you see. Here's how ...

And yet a single beluga managed to make his ... And they weren’t speaking dolphin but rather doing perfect imitations of humpback whales. Briefly trying on our babble for a time is a trifle ...

JohnL/ Shutterstock We call them beluga whales, but their scientific name, Delphinapterus leucas, means ‘white dolphin without a fin’. So, which are they – dolphins or whales? The distinctions between ...

Beluga feed on fish, crustaceans, and worms. The whale is related to the tusked “unicorn” whale known as the narwhal. The beluga is not related to the sturgeon of the same name, which has been ...

They're bigger than all but the largest dolphins and smaller than most other toothed whales. At birth, beluga whales are 5 feet long, roughly 100 pounds, and dark blue-gray in color. Unmistakable as ...

Captive breeding of cetaceans is difficult, and many whales and dolphins currently in captivity around the world were deliberately captured—not rescued—from the wild. Even for bottlenose dolphins, ...

The cetaceans most commonly held in captivity for human entertainment are orcas, beluga whales, bottlenose dolphins and Pacific white-sided dolphins. The tradition of housing cetaceans in captivity ...

A beluga whale found off Norway's coast wearing a special ... the message 'please call this number'?” “We have military dolphins for combat roles, we don't cover that up,” he said.

Photographer Jacob VanderVelde filmed a humpback whale and dolphin playing and dancing through the waters around Oahu with his drone Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...

The Vancouver Aquarium stopped keeping orcas in 2001. It still holds two Pacific white-sided dolphins, two beluga whales, and several porpoises, sea otters, seals, and sea lions. Nightingale was ...

They're bigger than all but the largest dolphins and smaller than most other toothed whales. At birth, beluga whales are 5 feet long, roughly 100 pounds, and dark blue-gray in color. Unmistakable as ...