The spade-toothed whale is part of the beaked whale family and is considered the rarest whale in the world. Previously, it had only been seen by humans on six occasions-always dead and never under ...

Scientists don't know why spade-toothed whales have never been spotted in the wild or where in the ocean they live. All beaked whales have different stomach systems, and researchers don't know how ...

Then in 2010, two whole spade-toothed whales, both dead, washed up on a New Zealand beach. Firstly mistaken for one of New Zealand’s 13 other more common types of beaked whale, tissue samples ...

The first dissection of a spade-toothed whale, a type of beaked whale, was completed last week after a painstaking examination at a research center near the New Zealand city of Dunedin ...

The first dissection of a spade-toothed whale, a type of beaked whale, was completed last week after a painstaking examination at a research center near the New Zealand city of Dunedin ...

The whale was found near an ... identified by scientists as a spade-toothed whale - a species so rare it has never been seen alive. The five-metre long, beaked creature's identity was determined ...