Bizarre skull belongs to first known beluga-narwhal hybrid
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation wants to expand production at its iron ore mine on northern Baffin Island, in Canada’s
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Conservation group calls for more research into effects of mine shipping noise on narwhal in Arctic Canada
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
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
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
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
The annual freeze-up in Arctic waters off Alaska is coming later, and some beluga whales seem to have taken notice.
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Whaling ship wreckage found off Arctic Alaska
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
By Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch Piles of bowhead whale bones and blubber left on an Arctic beach by North Slope
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