Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from head injuries, an expert ...

Only seven spade-toothed whales have ever been identified, and the species has never been seen alive. After one washed ashore ...

Their work revealed, for the first time, that spade-toothed whales have tiny vestigial teeth in their upper jaw. Vestigial ...

The first dissection of a spade-toothed whale, a type of beaked whale, was completed last week after a painstaking examination at a research center near the New Zealand city of Dunedin ...

On July 4, the Travers's beaked whale (Mesoplodon traversii), never seen alive before, washed up on a beach in Otago, New ...

The occurrence of several whale and dolphin species in the Gulf of Mexico drastically dropped off in the decade following the ...

“For me personally, it’s unbelievable.” Van Helden has studied beaked whales for 35 years, but Monday was the first time he has participated in a dissection of the spade-toothed variet ...

Scientists recently cut into the body of a spade-toothed whale, one of the world's rarest animals. It was the first time ...

The spade-toothed whale is a member of the beaked whale family, which gets its name for its “dolphin-like” snouts, according to the DOC. They are a diverse and elusive group of mammals ...

"For me personally, it's unbelievable." Van Helden has studied beaked whales for 35 years, but Monday was the first time he has participated in a dissection of the spade-toothed variety.

Scientists in New Zealand have begun dissecting what is considered the rarest whale in the world, a species so elusive that only seven of the animals have ever been documented.