Marine scientists may learn more about the "rarest whale" in the world after a spade-toothed whale washed up on an Otago beach in New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Department of ...

WELLINGTON--Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest ... a spade-toothed whale. The five-meter-long creature, a type of beaked whale, was identified after it washed ashore on an Otago ...

Once in a blue moon, boaters off California catch a glimpse of a famous but elusive white killer whale. Frosty, as it is ...

Footage shot on Saturday shows a critically endangered North Atlantic right whale swimming near Dewey Beach, Delaware.

This pygmy sperm whale washed ashore on the Avalon Peninsula ... a pygmy sperm whale in Newfoundland and Labrador is extremely rare. "It's the third one that we've worked on in the last 40 ...

A dead minke whale washed up along the Ventura County coast last week ... showed up off the remote islands. The largest ...

The known population of the whale species is just 360, making it one of the most endangered large whales in the world.

A private wharf has been dismantled after a 15-metre long animal was found stuck underneath. Skilled tradies took a ...

By Christopher Walsh A dead whale that landed at Cupsogue Beach in Westhampton Beach on Saturday morning, September 14, had injuries consistent with a vessel strike, the Atlantic Marine Conservation ...

One of the world’s most elusive animals has just washed up on a beach in New Zealand. The spade-toothed whale is, in fact, so ...

Local officials were notified that the whale had been washed ashore on 4 July at the mouth ... with only six samples ever documented worldwide. "From a scientific and conservation point of view ...

A whale which washed up on a New Zealand beach is an incredibly rare species, scientists say. Marine-mammal experts believe it is a male spade-toothed whale based on its colour patterns as well as ...