In July 2024, scientists in Otago, New Zealand, made a stunning discovery: an elusive spade-toothed beaked whale had washed up ... an animal around the size of an oversized dolphin that had ...

But this was no ordinary whale. “I immediately went, ‘Oh my goodness, it’s a spade-toothed whale!’” the senior marine science adviser for New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC ...

Marine biologists are examining the remains of what's believed to be a spade-toothed whale, one of the planet’s rarest marine mammals, which washed ashore on a New Zealand beach on July 4.

But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved spade-toothed whale hoping to decode decades of mystery. “I can’t tell ...

Scientists examined the behemoth and, much to their amazement, concluded they had made a rare find: The creature on the sand, they believe, is the elusive spade-toothed whale, a marine mammal that ...

Wellington, New Zealand — Spade-toothed whales are the world's rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. No one knows how many there are, what they eat, or even where they live in the vast ...

But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved spade-toothed whale hoping to decode decades of mystery. “I can’t tell ...

There has never been a live sighting recorded of the spade-toothed whale. No one knows how many there are, what they eat, or even where they live in the vast expanse of the southern Pacific Ocean.

an elusive spade-toothed beaked whale had washed up on the shore. The whale had never been seen in the wild, and finding a recently deceased adult male meant that, for the first time, scientists could ...