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Bizarre skull belongs to first known beluga-narwhal hybrid

21 June 201921 June 2019 CBC News 0 Comments animals, beluga, marine mammals, narwhal, whales, wildlife

Modern DNA technology has confirmed a strange-looking whale skull with weird, twisted teeth collected by a hunter decades ago belongs

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Alaska communities worry about military drill’s environmental impacts

22 May 201922 May 2019 Zachariah Hughes, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, defence, fish, military, military exercises, navy, Northern Edge, whales

The Northern Edge military exercises are underway across huge sections of Southcentral and Interior Alaska. The Navy has a larger

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Narwhals have survived 1 million years despite low genetic diversity: study

9 May 201910 May 2019 CBC News 0 Comments climate change, narwhal, Nunavut, whales

The narwhal has survived as a species for one million years, despite having low genetic diversity — a discovery that

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Southcentral Alaska: In death, beached humpack whale offers clues, research samples, food

3 May 2019 Casey Grove, Alaska Public Media 0 Comments Alaska, Anchorage, whales, wildlife

A humpback whale that beached in Turnagain Arm south of Anchorage near Girdwood, in southcentral Alaska, has died. Biologists say

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Icelandic whale sanctuary can’t offer safe haven to beluga freed from harness

3 May 20193 May 2019 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments beluga, Hammerfest, whales, wildlife

A whale sanctuary in Iceland will not be able to provide safe haven to a lonely beluga whale freed last

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Beluga whale freed from mysterious harness delights residents of Arctic Norwegian town

2 May 20192 May 2019 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments beluga, Hammerfest, whales, wildlife

A genial beluga whale freed from a mysterious harness by Norwegian fishermen and fisheries officials off the coast of northern

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Friendly beluga whale with mysterious harness raises alarm in Norway

30 April 20193 May 2019 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments beluga, harness, Norway, whales

A friendly beluga whale freed from a mysterious harness by Norwegian fishermen is raising alarm and questions about the potential

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Effects on narwhal must be clarified before expanding iron ore mine in Arctic Canada

29 April 201929 April 2019 Meagan Deuling, CBC News 0 Comments Baffinland, hunting, indigenous, Inuit, marine mammals, Milne Inlet, mining, narwhal, Nunavut, whales, wildlife

The Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation wants to expand production at its iron ore mine on northern Baffin Island, in Canada’s

Narwhals pictured above in the Canadian Arctic. Their tusks can sell for several thousand dollars. (Kristin Laidre/NOAA/AP)

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Conservation group calls for more research into effects of mine shipping noise on narwhal in Arctic Canada

8 April 20198 April 2019 Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International 0 Comments Baffinland, Mary River iron mine, mining, narwhal, Nunavut, shipping, whales

A Canadian conservation group says more research into the impact of vessel traffic on narwhal and other marine life is

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Sperm whales in Canadian High Arctic sign of shifting ecosystem, says scientist

5 November 20185 November 2018 CBC News 0 Comments marine mammals, Nunavut, Pond Inlet, sperm whales, whales

Two sperm whales spotted near Pond Inlet, Nunavut, are a sign of underlying shifts in the High Arctic ecosystem, according

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Scientists puzzled by right whale’s appearance off Iceland

27 July 201827 July 2018 Gail Harding, CBC News 0 Comments animals, conservation, mammals, nature, North Atlantic, oceans, right whales, whales, wildlife

While it has happened before, seeing an Atlantic right whale swimming in waters off of Iceland is still rare. But

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Beluga tour operators in Northern Canada decry new rules protecting marine mammals

20 July 201820 July 2018 Lynn Desjardins, Radio Canada International 0 Comments animals, Churchill, conservation, dolphins, Hudson Bay, law, mammals, porpoises, tourism, whales

Tour operators in the northern town of Churchill, in the Canadian province of Manitoba, say new government rules to protect

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With Arctic freeze-up coming later, some belugas delay fall migration

17 January 2017 Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Alaska, Beaufort Sea, Chukchi Sea, migration, Russia, whales

The annual freeze-up in Arctic waters off Alaska is coming later, and some beluga whales seem to have taken notice.

Map of the Barents Strait between Alaska and Russia's Chukotka region. How will tensions between Moscow and Washington affect researchers in the Arctic? (iStock)

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Whaling ship wreckage found off Arctic Alaska

7 January 20168 January 2016 Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments archaeology, history, NOAA, oceans, Science, technology, whales

When pack ice shifted to trap 33 commercial whaling ships off Alaska’s Arctic coast in the fall of 1871, more than

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Polar bears increasingly coming ashore in Arctic Alaska

22 January 2014 Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Barrow, hunting, whales, wildlife

By Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch Piles of bowhead whale bones and blubber left on an Arctic beach by North Slope

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