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.

A whale so rare that none have ever been sighted alive has washed ashore on a New Zealand beach, leaving authorities bemused about how to proceed with the specimen. Locals in the South Island ...

(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 ...

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.

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.

The first spade-toothed whale bones were found in 1872 on New Zealand’s Pitt Island. Another discovery was made at an offshore island in the 1950s, and the bones of a third were found on Chile ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...