The lives of 30 beluga whales — the last captive cetaceans in Canada — are in jeopardy this week. Housed at Marineland, a closed-down theme park in Niagara Falls, Ontario, their future has become the ...

In 2019, fishermen off northern Norway found an unusually tame beluga whale wearing a manmade harness marked with text linked ...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A beluga whale found with a tight harness that appeared to be Russian made has raised the alarm of Norwegian officials and prompted speculation that the animal may have come ...

USA TODAY Pets is going live with the Georgia Aquarium's beluga whales, giving viewers a real-time look at their daily lives ...

Dozens of captive beluga whales trapped in a defunct amusement park may be spared euthanasia after the Canadian federal government conditionally approved their export to the U.S. In a Facebook post ...

Thirty beluga whales are still alive days after a Canadian marine park threatened to euthanize them if the government did not provide immediate emergency funding, according to officials. "We can ...

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Animal rights groups are now calling on the Canadian government to intervene and seize the whales. Over two dozen beluga whales at the now-defunct Marineland amusement in Niagara Falls, Ontario, could ...

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