A narluga (portmanteau of narwhal and beluga) is a hybrid born from mating a female narwhal and a male beluga whale. [1] Narwhals and beluga whales are both cetaceans found in the High Arctic and are the only two living members of the family Monodontidae .

2022年3月9日 · Since 2016, scientists have been tracking a pod of beluga whales that seems to have adopted a lone male narwhal in Canada's St. Lawrence River.

2020年10月28日 · Did you know narwhals and belugas can reproduce in the wild and create a Narluga hybrid? Scientists found evidence of the Narluga’s existence in Greenland. In this post, we give you an in 3D exclusive first look at the Narluga’s skull, courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Denmark. Credit: Hanna Michel. They can interbreed! How do we know that?

2019年6月20日 · In the late 1980s, an Inuit subsistence hunter named Jens Larsen killed a trio of very strange whales off the western coast of Greenland. He and his fellow subsistence hunters would regularly...

2019年6月21日 · Thirty years later, they've finally figured out what it is: a cross between a narwhal and beluga, The New York Times reports. The narluga, as they've called it, is the offspring of a female narwhal and a male beluga—two species that have never been known to mate before, the researchers write in Scientific Reports. DNA analysis revealed the ...

The beluga whale (/ b ɪ ˈ l uː ɡ ə /; [4] Delphinapterus leucas) is an Arctic and sub-Arctic cetacean.It is one of two living members of the family Monodontidae, along with the narwhal, and the only member of the genus Delphinapterus.It is also known as the white whale, as it is the only cetacean to regularly occur with this colour; the sea canary, due to …

The cetacean family Monodontidae comprises two living whale species, the narwhal and the beluga whale and at least four extinct species, known from the fossil record. Beluga and Narwhal are native to coastal regions and pack ice around the Arctic Ocean .

2019年6月20日 · Now University of Copenhagen researchers find the skull belonged to an unprecedented hybrid animal — a cross between a narwhal and a beluga. “It appears this is very uncommon,” molecular ecologist Eline Lorenzen, who led the new study, said.

2019年6月20日 · DNA and stable isotope analysis of an anomalous skull from the Natural History Museum of Denmark has allowed researchers to confirm the existence of a narwhal-beluga hybrid. A team of...

2019年6月20日 · On a remote island in Disko Bay, Greenland, a scientist in 1990 was collecting specimens of narwhals, the whales with unicorn-like tusks. He noticed an unusual skull on a hunter’s roof. The...