CHICAGO — The Shedd Aquarium announced that the baby beluga whale born last summer is a boy and they are holding a vote for his name. The newest member of the beluga pod has been spending his ...

I've been gaga for beluga whales ever since I was a little kid (along with probably every other 80s/90s kid who grew up ...

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 ...

Like the legendary Moby Dick, the full-grown beluga whale is snowy white. Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims ...

When a beluga approached their boat, one hunter would jump on the whale’s back and slip a lasso around its neck, like a high plains mustang. The other would then slide a floating stretcher under ...