The world-famous beluga whale thought to have been trained as a Russian spy and later found dead under fishy circumstances is ...

The Hvaldimir whale - which was spotted off the coast of Norway in 2019 - was originally thought to have been a Russian spy ...

In 2014, the whale was allegedly moved from a facility owned by a dolphinarium in St. Petersburg to an Arctic military ...

In a mask and a hazmat suit, Ermek Murataliyev drives a truck filled with Soviet-era radioactive waste along the winding ...

Hvaldimir is a bit of a portmanteau for the Norwegian word for whale, hvald, and Russian president Vladimir Putin. Now, a ...

The winning image and the four runners up will be announced in February 2025 and displayed online, joining the winners of the 60th competition, and will also be showcased on the voting screens at the ...

The mystery around why a beluga whale appeared off the coast of Norway wearing a harness may have been solved. Now, an expert in the species thinks she knows the answers about where this whale came ...

In Churchill, Manitoba—where polar bears outnumber the 900 human residents—there's more to discover than just wildlife.

The white beluga whale is a very distinctive species ... Importance: A rare encounter with a distinctive Arctic species. Dive category: Belugas are so shy it would take a lot of luck to swim ...

Getty Images The beluga whale pictured on Saturday coming up for ... so far from its natural habitat - the cold waters of the Arctic and sub-Arctic. Belugas occasionally venture south in the ...

Arctic cod, a high-fat fish that is key in beluga diets, is diminishing, said beluga expert Pierre Richard of the Northern Studies Center in Churchill and author of three whale books. But he said ...