The spade-toothed whale is among the rarest and least-studied of whales. Until recently, only six records of the species ...

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

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

Scientists in New Zealand are dissecting an entire spade-toothed whale, one of the rarest whale species in the world, for the first time, according to The Guardian. When the five-meter male whale ...

The world’s first autopsy of this very rare whale enabled the indigenous people and conservation scientists in New Zealand to ...

“A lot of people didn’t believe me,” he added. The spade-toothed whale is the world’s rarest, only seven of its species have ever been recorded. It’s never been spotted alive at se ...

They made a number of discoveries. Photo from the Department of Conservation This summer, a male spade-toothed whale — the world’s rarest whale species — washed ashore in New Zealand ...