Washington, DC—The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI), Whale & Dolphin Conservation (WDC), Cetacean Society International (CSI), and Earth Island Institute (EII) today filed their joint response to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mystic Aquarium recently welcomed a 16-year-old male beluga whale named Nunavik, marking the beginning of a massive effort to ...

The Georgia Aquarium’s two newest beluga whales have quickly acclimated to their new home after a 12-hour flight from the shuttered Marineland aquatic park on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls, ...

The belugas were among 30 whales transferred to aquariums in the United States and Spain from a closed marine attraction in ...

Hidden beneath Arctic waters, beluga whales have long kept their family lives a mystery. By analyzing DNA from more than 600 belugas in Alaska’s Bristol Bay over 13 years, researchers uncovered a ...

As a horde of beluga whales are making their way to aquariums around the United States as part of an international rescue effort, the USA TODAY Pets team decided to take a closer look at what makes ...

Beluga whales are back in the spotlight thanks to new research, viral videos, and growing concerns about their Arctic habitat. Beluga whales, those striking white Arctic cetaceans, are once again ...

Editor's Note: The video in the above player is from a previous report. Ten beluga whales were brought to Chicago's Shedd Aquarium as part of a massive international rescue effort, but in the days ...