6/26/2019
In the 1980s, a Greenlandic subsistence hunter shot and killed a whale with bizarre features unlike any he had ever seen before. He knew something ...
6/25/2019
An Ontario anthropology professor has helped a Danish team confirm the existence of a beluga-narwahl hybrid whale — now dubbed the "narluga.".
6/23/2019
(Inside Science) -- A mysterious whale skull came from the first and only known hybrid of a beluga and a narwhal, a new study finds. An Inuit hunter ...
6/22/2019
In a 1993 study, researchers at the Society of Marine Mammalogy thought the skull belonged to a hybrid whale because of its unusual teeth and size.
Beluga whales typically have near-vertical teeth. The hybrid had teeth in both its upper and lower jaws, but its chompers were grooved and some were ...
6/21/2019
A hunter discovered three odd-looking whales in Greenland during the '80s. These whales had a mix of features — flippers like those of the beluga ...
Narwhals and belugas are the only two toothed whales native to the Arctic, and they're often seen in one another's company. You've therefore gotta ...
University of Copenhagen researchers found a beluga whale and narwhal were once an unlikely couple, giving birth to a rare hybrid 'narluga,' if you ...
Using DNA analysis of an unusual, decades-old whale skull, scientists were finally able to identify the animal as a rare hybrid of a beluga whale and a ...
Cetacean hybrids are not that uncommon. Earlier this month, it was reported that scientists had discovered a whale-dolphin hybrid near Hawaii.
The specimen has been confirmed through morphological comparison and DNA analysis to be a bona fide Narwhal-Beluga whale hybrid. RELATED: ...
For almost thirty years a highly unusual whale skull collected from the Arctic has been gathering dust in the collection of the Natural History Museum of ...
6/20/2019
SALT LAKE CITY — Scientists have discovered a mysterious whale skull first discovered in 1990 is actually a never-before-seen hybrid between two ...
In the 1980s, a subsistence hunter caught three unusual-looking whales in Greenland's Disko Bay. They had flippers shaped like those of belugas, but ...
By Scottie Andrew and Brian Ries, CNN. CNN — It was a mystery for nearly 30 years. A hunter turned over a whale skull that appeared to share the ...
A hunter turned over a whale skull that appeared to share the characteristics of both a beluga whale and a narwhal. Scientists were stumped.
On a remote island in Disko Bay, Greenland, a scientist in 1990 was collecting specimens of narwhals, the whales with unicorn-like tusks. He noticed ...
An Inuit hunter caught three unusual whales off the coast of western Greenland in the mid-1980s, donating the skull from one of his prey to the Natural ...
DNA analysis of an unusually shaped whale skull in a Danish museum suggest the creature was a hybrid born of a mother narwhal, known as ...
Researchers have made a whale of a discovery — a hybrid of a beluga whale and a narwhal. DNA analysis of the whale's skull confirmed it to be the ...