The lives of 30 beluga whales — the last captive cetaceans in Canada — are in jeopardy this week. Housed at Marineland, a closed-down theme park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, their future has become the ...

Beluga whales can disappear beneath Arctic sea ice for long stretches, which makes them far tougher to follow than many other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thirty beluga whales are still alive days after a Canadian marine park threatened to euthanize them if the government did not ...

Every summer, hundreds of beluga whales gather in Canada's Churchill River, making it an ideal location to collect breath ...

Beluga whales indulge in wife swapping to enhance their long term survival chances, reveals new research. Ground-breaking DNA analysis shows both males and females of the species that live in the cold ...

CHICAGO -- The adventures of the penguins at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium continue! Earlier this month, a video of Wellington the rockhopper penguin went viral after he wandered through the closed ...

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Animal rights groups are now calling on the Canadian government to intervene and seize the whales. Over two dozen beluga whales at the now-defunct Marineland amusement in Niagara Falls, Ontario, could ...