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 ...

A review of known and inferred distributions of various beaked whale species highlights the gaps in our knowledge, particularly for lesser-known species like the spade-toothed whale. This ...

a very rare species of whale turned up on a beach in New Zealand – a spade-toothed whale. While this is sad, the carcass was dissectedin order to help researchers acquire new information about the ...

One significant area of research has been the study of the cranial evolution of cetaceans, which includes both baleen and toothed whales. A recent analysis of 201 living and extinct cetacean ...

A beached whale, believed to be a beaked whale, has been found on Kangaroo Island. Some residents reported seeing the whale swimming the day before. A National Parks and Wildlife Service South ...

Apart from humans, whales are the only mammals that go through menopause. This natural biological process is known to exist in just five species of toothed whale: short-finned pilot whales ...

The more uncommon baleen breachers include the gray, blue, minke, sei, Bryde’s, and fin whales. Apart from the northern bottlenose, beaked whales are also known to breach, except this behavior is ...