The findings offered insight into how spade-toothed whales live, as well as how this particular one met its end. The team discovered small vestigial teeth in the upper jaw of the whale.

On Monday, a small group of scientists and cultural experts gathered around the near-perfectly preserved male spade-toothed whale, hoping to decode decades of mystery surrounding this elusive species.

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 ...

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

Belugas are small whales, measuring up to 15 feet long with a maximum weight of 3,000 pounds. They're bigger than all but the largest dolphins and smaller than most other toothed whales. At birth, ...

Whales are not an uncommon sight off the coast of California, but this saber-toothed whale that washed up on the shore of Venice Beach on Oct. 15 was quite a surprise for marine scientists.

They also discovered the whale’s upper jaw contained small, vestigial teeth ... this beautiful animal,” van Helden said. Spade-toothed whales, a type of beaked whale, were first discovered ...

Sperm whales are the largest of the toothed whales. Albinism is a rare ... time to save some of the provisions and regroup in three small whaling boats before their ship succumbed to the waves.

A whale species scientists know next to nothing about will undergo the first full dissection after washing ashore on a New Zealand beach this summer. Since the 1800s, only six other spade-toothed ...

Department of Conservation (DOC) official Gabe Davies said in a statement that spade-toothed ... of stranded whales off New Zealand's North Island in 2010 and 2017 added to the small collection.

Whales are weird. The Cetacea clade contains the largest animal to ever live—the blue whale—as well as other gigantic baleen whales and a diverse array of toothed whales, including dolphins, porpoises ...