Six months ago, they welcomed a baby Beluga whale to the family, and they recently shared an update that fans had been anxiously waiting for about how he's doing. Not only that, but they're ...

(Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune) Sheri Hendricks, supervisor of cetaceans at the Shedd Aquarium, plays with Opus, a seven-month-old baby beluga whale on March 6, 2025. (Terrence Antonio ...

Over 1,000 votes were cast by Shedd Aquarium members and the beluga calf now has a name ... The name nods to the unique vocalizations these whales make and honors his father, Beethoven.

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 ...

"Baby Beluga in the deep blue sea, swim so wild and you swim so free, heaven above and the sea below, and a little white whale on the go." Open Full Embed in New Tab Loading external pages may ...

A newborn beluga whale calf in Alaska. Almost 100 participants from across the Inuvialuit settlement area and beyond were in Inuvik, N.W.T., this week for the Beluga Summit which ended Thursday.

Beluga whales, also known as ‘white whales’, are social and smart marine mammals that are well adapted to living in very cold waters. Their incredible echolocation abilities, however, make them ...

The mother’s fat-rich milk allows the baby to build fat reserves for energy ... For instance, while beluga whales are considered a species of least concern by the International Union for the ...