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, ...

Editor Brent Hoff laughs with delight when asked about the confounding Wholphin moniker. “Yeah, I know. Can’t pronounce it, can’t spell it, and no one knows what it means.” When pressed if the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...