While a wholphin may sound like the stuff of fantasies — or nightmares, depending on who you ask — we’re here to tell you that a whale/dolphin hybrid has, in fact, been discovered. This is real life!

This Aug. 11, 2017, photo provided by Cascadia Research shows a hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin, in the foreground, swimming next to a melon-headed dolphin near Kauai, ...

Scientists have identified a creature that they believe to be a hybrid of a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin Scientists are touting the first sighting of a hybrid between a melon-headed ...

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HONOLULU — The world’s only known whale-dolphin hybrid has given birth to a playful female calf, officials at Sea Life Park Hawaii said Thursday. The calf was born on Dec. 23 to Kekaimalu, the only ...

HONOLULU — A mix of a false killer whale and bottlenose dolphin, the only such cross in captivity, has given birth to a female calf, according to officials at Sea Life Park Hawaii. The young wholphin ...

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Scientists are touting the first sighting of a hybrid between a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin in the ocean off Hawaii. But don't call it a "wholphin," they say. The melon-headed whale ...

This incredibly rare dolphin and whale hybrid species has been discovered near Kauai, Hawaii. Despite it being a hybrid of a melon-headed whale and a rough-toothed dolphin, scientists have said not to ...