"We could not confirm its size, but it doesn't look like a calf or juvenile. It looks more like an adult or sub-adult." ...

Whales eat a variety of prey. The size of their meals depends on if they have teeth. Some whales, like sperm whales and beaked whales, are classified as "toothed whales" because they have teeth.

On 4 July, the spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii), which has never been seen alive, washed up on a beach in Otago, ...

Some whales, like sperm whales and beaked whales, are classified as "toothed whales" because they have teeth. Baleen whales, on the other hand, have large, comb-like "baleen plates" that are made ...

A rare sighting of a sperm whale was made in the Waterford Estuary. Members of the public using the estuary have advised to ...

New Zealand scientists have begun dissecting a spade-toothed whale, considered the rarest whale in the world, marking the first time researchers have been able to study a complete specimen.

— Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. No one knows how many there are, what ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Analysis of blubber samples from 11 toothed whale species stranded on Japanese coasts identified over 300 organohalogen compounds, revealing species-specific ...