Nature’s most impressive conversations happen at frequencies we cannot hear. While humans perceive sounds between 20 and 20,000 hertz, many animals have evolved to communicate using infrasound. These ...

For the first time, we know more than we ever expected to know about the sex lives of the majestic beluga whale. It's ...

In the icy waters of Alaska's Bristol Bay, a new study reveals how a small population of beluga whales (Delphinapterus leucas ...

Beluga whales avoid inbreeding by switching partners over time, helping a small, isolated population stay genetically healthy ...

The study authors expected to find that males were competing heavily for mates and mating with multiple females, in a ...

A n isolated Alaskan population of beluga whales have a population small enough that inbreeding could be a major threat. Yet ...

Among marine mammals, beluga whales ( Delphinapterus leucas) are particularly difficult to study in their icy habitat. To ...

“While the human penis functions primarily to transfer sperm, our result suggests its unusual large size evolved as a sexual ...

Belugas are harder to study than most whales as they spend so much time under the Arctic ice. The post Beluga whales ‘swap ...

Researchers in Alaska have discovered that beluga whales have lots of different partners and this “mate switching” could be ...