To understand exactly why comedian Mamrie Hart’s recipe for beluga lentil caviar is so fun, it helps to clarify a few things. First off, there are no beluga whales involved in the making of beluga ...

Farms aim to keep beluga on the market despite a U.S. import ban. But scientists say that won’t save the species from going extinct in the wild by 2050 Mikola Kopanetskyi waded waist high in an ...

A beluga whale at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium became the first known beluga whale to recover from general anesthesia after a successful surgery this week. The 12-year-old whale named Kimalu needed to ...

Mikola Kopanetskyi waded waist high in an outdoor water tank the size of an above-ground pool, slowly creeping up on the beluga sturgeon swimming in front of him. Once he sneaked close enough, ...

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Caviar ‘farm to spoon' Beluga sturgeon, also called huso huso, evolved nearly 200 million years ago in the Middle Jurassic period. With a ridged spine, hulking frame and shark-like tail, they resemble ...