Unlike other whales, whose neck vertebrae are fused, belugas can turn their heads from side to side. The melon in their head can also change shape while making sounds and their face muscles can move, ...

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 ...

Deputy Opinion Editor Michael Clausen and Opinion Editor Hailey Gates defend their picks for Shedd's newest underwater friend ...

Marineland says it has euthanized a seven-year-old beluga after a long battle with several different medical conditions.Visitors watch as beluga whales swim in a tank at Marineland amusement park ...

The calf received several herrings from Jacobsma, who noted the baby whale has yet to grow in his teeth. For the aquarium staff, every birth is significant and the first beluga born at Shedd in ...

The Beluga -- billed by Airbus as the world's biggest cargo plane in terms of volume transported -- looks something like a whale, with a rounded fuselage mounted on an Airbus A300-600 base.