Opus was the top vote-getter in a virtual poll the aquarium ran exclusively for Shedd members. The baby beluga boy was born ...

The name is also a nod to whale’s father and the high-pitched songs that have led these mammals to be dubbed the “canaries of the sea.” ...

Hvaldimir was found dead in Risavika Bay in southern Norway. The male beluga whale—a marine mammal from the narwhal ...

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 ...

The calf, Opus, was born to beluga whale Naya in July. The name means a musical composition or set of compositions usually numbered in the order of its issue, the Shedd said in a news release. The ...