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A resurfaced recording of a beluga whale mimicking human speech has sparked renewed interest and mixed reactions. Additionally, a study documented an orca imitating words, hinting at the potential for ...

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Although the beluga sturgeon shares its name with the more famous beluga whale, the two species are unrelated. “Beluga” comes from the Russian word “belaya,” which means white. So, what would cause a ...

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale ... [+] seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

The biggest cetacean in the world is the blue whale, whose scientific name is Balaenoptera musculus. This huge animal reaches approximately 100 feet long. Some can reach slightly longer, but this is a ...

Attendance at SeaWorld’s water parks slipped ... and 26 more are under construction. Beluga whales perform in a pop-up aquarium under an inflatable tent in Saratov, Russia.

Rescuers have freed a humpback whale that was caught up in a rope at a fish farm off the Isle of Skye. The mammal was spotted by a member of the public being in difficulty at the Invertote salmon ...

In a post-industrial whaling world, flagship and charismatic baleen whale species are indicators of the health of our oceans. However, traditional monitoring methods provide spatially and temporally ...

British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR) mobilised its large whale disentanglement team from across the UK to carry out the complex rescue operation. The exhausted whale was finally freed on Friday ...

Two female sea lions nursed back to health at SeaWorld San Diego after being found struggling on beaches in San Diego County surged into the sea off a Camp Pendleton beach on Friday, Jan.