a key prey species for the whales. Globally, beluga populations are believed to number around 200,000, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). While the species is ...

Mom is 35-year-old Naya, but there are two mature males in Shedd’s pod. DNA testing revealed that Beethoven, the oldest male ...

said she would point out to other conservation bodies that Ocean Park is funding research on beluga whales in the Okhotsk Sea. The theme park confirmed that it had been funding Russian research on ...

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 ...

Marineland says it has euthanized a seven-year-old beluga whale after a long battle with several different medical conditions. It is the 18th beluga to die at the Niagara Falls, Ont., tourist ...