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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It could be a similar, but even rarer species called the Gingko-toothed beaked whale. The dead whale's tissue will have to be genetically tested at the National Marine Fisheries Service Center for ...

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 ...