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 ...

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.

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

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 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) ...

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, ...

Strange as the beluga whale-narwhal mix may seem, it is only the most recent in a long line of known couplings between different species of whales and dolphins.

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 ...

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.