JohnL/ Shutterstock We call them beluga whales, but their scientific name, Delphinapterus leucas, means ‘white dolphin without a fin’. So, which are they – dolphins or whales? The distinctions between ...

A four-year-old beluga whale went to live in the Koktebel dolphinarium in Crimea, with no other belugas around to talk to, only dolphins. Belugas are regarded as the “canaries of the sea” due ...

And yet a single beluga managed to make his ... And they weren’t speaking dolphin but rather doing perfect imitations of humpback whales. Briefly trying on our babble for a time is a trifle ...

Russia has a track record of training marine animals like dolphins and beluga whales, a practice that dates back to the Soviet Union and continues today. The US Navy has also trained dolphins to ...

They're bigger than all but the largest dolphins and smaller than most other toothed whales. At birth, beluga whales are 5 feet long, roughly 100 pounds, and dark blue-gray in color. Unmistakable as ...

A beluga whale found off Norway's coast wearing a special ... the message 'please call this number'?” “We have military dolphins for combat roles, we don't cover that up,” he said.