The St. Lawrence River has welcomed an unusual group of visitors in recent years: a pod of beluga whales that appears ... came from DNA analysis of a skull, conducted by the University of ...

Like the legendary Moby Dick, the full-grown beluga whale is snowy white. Yet unlike Herman Melville's mostly fictitious albino sperm whale, which had only Captain Ahab to deal with, the beluga swims ...

When a beluga approached their boat, one hunter would jump on the whale’s back and slip a lasso around its neck, like a high plains mustang. The other would then slide a floating stretcher under ...