This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- A mysterious whale skull came from the first and only known hybrid of a beluga and a narwhal, a new study finds.. An Inuit hunter caught three ...

The hybrid whale’s combined features are completely weird, Dr. Lorenzen said. “It’s like if you took 50-percent beluga and 50-percent narwhal and shoved their teeth in a blender, that’s ...

Amazing video: Narwhal taken in by group of beluga whales. A lost narwhal was spotted swimming and playing with a group of beluga whales over 600 miles away from its natural habitat.

Female narwhals also have two teeth, and sometimes can grow a tusk of their own, but not as prominently as males. Beluga whales, on the other hand, have a set of cone-shaped teeth aligned in a ...

The narwhal-beluga hybrid skull. Mikkel Høegh Post/Natural History Museum Of Denmark. In the 1980s, a subsistence hunter caught three unusual-looking whales in Greenland’s Disko Bay.

The results were clear: The animal was a male, and a near 50-50 genetic mix of beluga and narwhal. This indicated that it was a first-generation hybrid.

The flippers were beluga-like, but the tails were narwhal-esque. In all his years of hunting, Larsen had never seen anything like them. He was so struck that he kept one of their skulls on the ...

Both Narwhals are beluga whales are found in the Arctic ocean, belugas tend to migrate further south in the winter, as sea ice forms. Narwhals do not tend to leave the Arctic, ...

The narwhal in question was first spotted in the St. Lawrence River in 2016, and has reappeared with its beluga brothers every year since — giving Michaud and GREMM the chance to study the ...

Narwhals, often called the “unicorns of the sea,” are one of the most fascinating creatures in the ocean. Known for their ...

The skull of the potential narwhal-beluga hybrid is overlaid on the illustration. (Image credit: Illustration: Markus Bühler; Skull: Mikkel Høegh Post, Natural History Museum of Denmark) ...