A double-tusked narwhal harvested in the study area by Inughuit hunters and used for analysis, Inglefield Bredning Fjord, Northwest Greenland (Photo: E. A. Podolskiy, August 2023).[/caption] ...

Learn why curious narwhals are acting like the cats of the sea, bumping and scratching against underwater listening devices.

And unlike other whales, narwhals—which can live more than 100 years—die shortly in captivity, greatly reducing the opportunity to study them. "We've only had a glimpse of the beast," Pierre Richard, ...

As if the surface in the Arctic seas isn’t cold enough for narwhals, radiotelemetry studies have revealed that narwhals ...