With an estimated 8.75 million living species on earth, there are always going to be some weird and unusual animals you've ...

Spade-toothed whale skeleton. Image by Jorg Mazur, Mesoplodon_traversii via Wikimedia Commons. As you can imagine, researchers are eager to study this whale. Consequently, it could provide new ...

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 ...

When the spade-toothed whale, which up until July 4, 2024, had only been documented five times, washed up on a beach in Otago, New Zealand, that number was brought to six.It’s not all that ...

Spade-toothed whales (Mesoplodon traversii) are among the rarest and least-studied whales, partly due to their deep-diving behavior and long periods spent underwater in the vast, underexplored ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of ...

None has ever been seen alive at sea. The list of what scientists don’t know about spade-toothed whales is longer than what they do know. They don’t know where in the ocean the whales live ...

None has ever been seen alive at sea. The list of what scientists don’t know about spade-toothed whales is longer than what they do know. They don’t know where in the ocean the whales live ...

Only six other spade-toothed whales have ever been found, but all those discovered intact were buried before DNA testing could verify their identification. New Zealand is a whale-stranding hotspot, ...

The rarest whale in the world is being dissected this week by after washing ashore earlier this year. Only seven specimens of the spade-toothed whale have been documented since the 1880s.