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Commercial whaling, present challenges and future threats shape genetics and the potential for adaptation in the bowhead whales and narwhals of the Canadian Arctic.
Narwhals, hummingbirds and the Asian sheepshead wrasse have opened scientists’ eyes to the complexity of nature.
The long tusk of the male narwhal earned these whales their fanciful nickname. But there’s more to these Arctic mammals than their unique spiral tooth.
A skull found in West Greenland is proven to be the first-generation male offspring of a female narwhal and male beluga whale. The creature’s unusual diet may have been a result of its strange teeth.
What can the story of a lost narwhal and his beluga family tell us about interspecies adoptions?
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