It was 16 feet long and weighed 3,000 pounds. Cetacean experts were stunned to see that it was a spade-toothed whale. The carcass was in surprisingly good condition, allowing researchers to ...

New Zealand scientists have begun dissecting a spade-toothed whale, considered the rarest whale in the world, marking the first time researchers have been able to study a complete specimen.

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

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

The whale was found near an estuary in Otago province A whale that was found dead on a beach in New Zealand earlier this month has been identified by scientists as a spade-toothed whale - a ...

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 ...

Scientists in New Zealand recently performed the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale. They made a number of discoveries. Photo from the Department of Conservation This summer ...

Toothed Whales Catch Food in the Deep Using Vocal Fry Mar. 3, 2023 — Toothed whales, such as dolphins, killer whales and sperm whales communicate and catch food exclusively with sound.

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 new immersive art installation highlights the effects humans have on ocean ecosystems, and whales in particular.

They used an algorithm to help identify the vocalizations of toothed whales, their echolocation "clicks," which can be attributed to specific whale species. Based on the number of clicks they ...