A sperm whale stranded on Cuttyhunk Island over the weekend, adding to alarming whale death toll since December. Here's what ...

(Department of Conservation via AP) WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — 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 ...

making it one of the most poorly known large mammalian species of modern times. The male spade-toothed whale beached in July near Taieri Mouth, in the southern province of Otago, New Zealand.

Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved spade-toothed whale ...

Department of Conservation (DOC) official Gabe Davies said in a statement that spade-toothed whales were one of the least known large mammalian species, with only six samples ever documented ...

They made a number of discoveries. Photo from the Department of Conservation This summer, a male spade-toothed whale — the world’s rarest whale species — washed ashore in New Zealand ...

Whales are the biggest creatures on Earth. These animals are found in every ocean, but that doesn't make them fish.

Researchers studying the mammal couldn’t confirm if the species went extinct. Then in 2010, two whole spade-toothed whales, both dead, washed up on a New Zealand beach. Firstly mistaken for one ...

Scientists in New Zealand are conducting the first-ever dissection of a complete spade-toothed whale, one of the rarest whale species globally. New Zealand scientists on Monday began dissecting a ...

They feed on fish and squid like other odontocetes (toothed whales) do, but will also target seals, sea birds and even whale species far bigger than themselves. Killer whales are also the only known ...

Only six other spade-toothed whales have ever been located ... the Department of Conservation said in a statement. The species was first described in 1874 from only a lower jaw and two teeth ...