The body of a spade-toothed whale -- a species so rare it has never been seen alive -- appears to have washed up on a New Zealand beach, scientists say. The remains of the obscure, five-metre (16. ...

Killer whales off Canada's Atlantic coast continue to be contaminated with dangerously high levels of toxic chemicals that ...

“What this study did was to use a really powerful method, the comparative method, which compared species of toothed whales that go through menopause with species that don’t,” said Rebecca Sear, a ...

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 ...

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 ...