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Scientists Find a Never-Before-Seen Hybrid: A Narluga

Discover Magazine - Thu 20 Jun 19

The first "narluga" skull ever to be discovered. The hybrid mixes traits of its beluga and narwhal parents. (Credit: Mikkel Høegh Post, Natural History Museum of Denmark.) While visiting ...

Researchers confirm that narwhals and belugas can interbreed

Phys.org - Thu 20 Jun 19

A team of University of Copenhagen researchers has compiled the first and only evidence that narwhals and beluga whales can breed successfully. DNA and stable isotope analysis of an anomalous ...

Danish researchers confirm that narwhals and belugas can interbreed, Eurekalert - Thu 20 Jun 19

First ever beluga-narwhal hybrid identified

Cosmos Magazine - Thu 20 Jun 19

Skull stored in museum provides evidence of Arctic whale interbreeding. Nick Carne reports.

Weird whale may be a hybrid of a narwhal mother and beluga father

Newscientist - Thu 20 Jun 19

DNA analysis of an unusually shaped skull found in West Greenland suggests the creature was a hybrid male whale, with a narwhal mother and beluga father

DNA confirms a weird Greenland whale was a narwhal-beluga hybrid

ScienceNews - Thu 20 Jun 19

DNA analysis of a skull indicates that the animal had a narwhal mother and beluga father.

First-ever beluga-narwhal hybrid found in the Arctic

FOXNews - Fri 21 Jun 19

Thirty years ago, an Inuit man in west Greenland subsistence-hunting for whales shot a trio of strange cetaceans with front fins like belugas and tails like narwhals (the so-called "unicorns ...

First-Ever Beluga-Narwhal Hybrid Found in the Arctic, Livescience - Thu 20 Jun 19

Image of the Day: Hybrid Cetacean

The Scientist - Fri 21 Jun 19

The DNA of a whale shows its father was a beluga and its mother was a narwhal.

Scientists reveal skull of beluga-narwhal hybrid through DNA analysis

FOXNews - Fri 21 Jun 19

Using DNA analysis of a 30-some-year-old whale skull, scientists were reportedly able to identify the animal as a rare hybrid of a beluga whale and a narwhal.

Rare skull stored in a museum belonged to the hybrid offspring of a beluga whale and a narwhal 

Daily Mail - Thu 20 Jun 19

The rare specimen has been sitting in the collections of the Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, ever since it was collected from a hunter in West Greenland back in 1990.

Odd Skull in Museum Finally Confirmed as a Narhwal-Beluga Hybrid

Gizmodo - Thu 20 Jun 19

Back in 1990, subsistence hunters in Greenland gave a skull to scientists. Its origin, they explained, was a strange creature, evenly grey, with flippers like a beluga but a tail like a narwhal. ...

DNA proves Greenland man spotted first known beluga-narwhal

UPI - Thu 20 Jun 19

New DNA analysis suggests a strange whale skull, in museum storage for the last 30 years, belonged to the offspring of a narwhal mother and a beluga father.

Narwhals and belugas can interbreed

ScienceDaily - Thu 20 Jun 19

A team of researchers has compiled the first and only evidence that narwhals and beluga whales can breed successfully. DNA and stable isotope analysis of an anomalous skull from the Natural ...