The Airbus Beluga is one of the world's most iconic aircraft, instantly recognizable for its whale-shaped fuselage ... a crucial part in allowing NASA to ship components by air.

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 ...

Beluga feed on fish, crustaceans, and worms. The whale is related to the tusked “unicorn” whale known as the narwhal. The beluga is not related to the sturgeon of the same name, which has been ...

The ship also has a hydrophone to record the belugas ... In Canada, this means many beluga whales take refuge in the Churchill River, which feeds into Hudson Bay near Churchill, Manitoba.

The goal of their research was to understand the interactions between beluga whales and marine vessels. However, what they captured was unexpected—a group of bowhead whales, a phenomenon never ...

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 ...