The narwhal-beluga hybrid skull. Mikkel Høegh Post/Natural History Museum Of Denmark In the 1980s, a subsistence hunter caught three unusual-looking whales in Greenland’s Disko Bay. They had flippers ...

Skull was donated by an Inuit hunter in 1990. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A mysterious whale skull came from the first and only known hybrid of a beluga and a narwhal, a new ...

For centuries Europeans sought out the “unicorn horn” — the long and straight tusk of the arctic-dwelling narwhal whale — for its perceived magical and curative capabilities. On Friday, the tusk did ...

One quiet evening not too long ago, Kristin Laidre was standing on a rocky beach, peering out of a fjord dotted with icebergs. The water looked strangely still under the nighttime sun. "It's great ...