Anglerfish have invisible fangs, narwhal tusks are extra-long canines, and more facts from the weird and wonderful study of ...

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Narwhals belong to a family called Monodontidae, which contains two species: the narwhal and the beluga, which is also known as the ‘white whale’. Scientists are still on the fence about the ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Narwhals are an endangered species, with most of them residing in remote areas of Canada. Not much is known about the species of whale but new drone footage reveals ...

WWF is also launching a web page to showcase the partners’ fieldwork and research, with maps and information about the latest movements of the narwhals as they move around Baffin Bay in Canada’s ...

Writing on Facebook, Ms Steffen said Narwhal, named after a species of whale that has a single large "tusk", had visited the vet on Tuesday. And X-rays had showed his secondary tail, about a third ...

In this way, hunting and habitat loss directly impede species adaptation. Has commercial whaling affected genetic variation in Arctic whales? That was the question we set out to answer for both ...

To help answer that question, researchers at the University of Exeter looked at five species of whales that go through menopause, including orcas and narwhals. Their findings, published Wednesday in ...