Scientists who fitted heart rate-monitoring tags to Arctic narwhals have discovered a strange paradox in how the animals respond to threats. When these tusked whales are frightened, their hearts ...

“My father was a great hunter. He still hunted narwhals from a kayak when he was 75 years old. Everything he needed for hunting—kayaks, tools, harpoons—he made himself.” Glancing at his ...

AWI and more than 30 other animal protection and conservation organizations have called on the government of Greenland to immediately cancel hunting quotas for 50 narwhals from three populations in ...

Staff at Mac's Mission, which is predominantly for animals with special needs, have called the puppy Narwhal. They had been told there was "no medical need to remove" the extra tail as it caused ...

a weapon for doing battle with other narwhals and predators, and for hunting prey. Narwhals feed primarily on Arctic cod, squid and Greenland halibut. In 2017, drone footage suggested that they ...

Narwhals were central to northern European ... However, if you remove large numbers of individuals from a population whether ...

In this way, hunting and habitat loss directly impede species adaptation. Has commercial whaling affected genetic variation in Arctic whales? That was the question we set out to answer for both ...