According to Dr Shpak, Andruha/Hvaldimir had first been captured in 2013 in the Sea of Okhotsk in Russia's Far East. A year ...

The peculiar tale of a beluga whale believed to have been a Russian "spy" appears to have been solved. A marine mammal expert suggests the animal was likely trained to guard a Russian naval base ...

A suspected “spy” whale that died off Norway this year escaped from a Russian naval base, a scientist said. The beluga, nicknamed “Hvaldimir” — a portmanteau of “Vladimir,” as in ...

MOSCOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) - Russian rescuers returned a young female killer whale to the Sea of Okhotsk on Thursday after the orca beached in the far east, the emergency situations ministry said.

The tame beluga whale approached Norwegian fishermen in 2019, wearing a harness, leading to speculation that it was an escaped Russian "spy whale" [Norwegian Orca Survey] The mystery as to why a ...

An orca was successfully returned to the sea in Kamchatka, Russia, on November 15, after local residents found her stranded the day before, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situation said. “The ...

The tame beluga whale approached Norwegian fishermen in 2019, wearing a harness, leading to speculation that it was an escaped Russian "spy whale" [Norwegian Orca Survey] The mystery as to why a ...

The equipment, labeled "Equipment St. Petersburg," fueled theories that the whale was connected to Russian intelligence. Norwegians named the whale Hvaldimir, combining hval (Norwegian for whale ...