Amid a criminal probe for a string of dolphin deaths, this month Gulf World Marine Park transferred its seven bottlenose dolphins and four rough-toothed dolphins to three separate facilities in ...

A massive sea creature was spotted off the coast of California and onlookers are calling it a "once-in-a-lifetime experience.

In July 2024, scientists in Otago, New Zealand, made a stunning discovery: an elusive spade-toothed beaked whale had washed up on the shore. The whale had never been seen in the wild, and finding a ...

Spade-toothed beaked whale side view ... Different kinds of beaked whales. Image by Jorg Mazur, Poster_beaked_whales via Wikimedia Commons. After discovery, scientists took DNA samples from the whale ...

They are the largest toothed whales (a few filter-feeders ... romantic chase. A lot of art was linked to the sperm whale.” But the need for spermaceti decreased with the drilling of petroleum ...

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 ...

Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from head injuries, an expert said Friday. The first dissection of a spade-toothed whale ...

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 ...

Spade-toothed whales are a kind of beaked whale which have been ... which is “an incredible moment”. Watch:COP29: Beached Whale Art Installation Appears On Shore “Beaked whales are the most enigmatic ...

New Zealand scientists on Monday began dissecting a whale considered the rarest in the world, a species so elusive that only seven specimens have ever been documented. The dead spade-toothed whale ...