Scientists and culture experts in New Zealand have begun the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the world's ...

A whale species scientists know next to nothing about will undergo the first full dissection in New Zealand after washing ...

Scientists met today to dissect the world's seventh known male spade-toothed whale, which washed up near a fishing village in ...

New Zealand scientists have begun dissecting a spade-toothed whale, considered the rarest whale in the world, marking the ...

New Zealand scientists on Monday began dissecting a whale considered the rarest in the world, a species so elusive that only ...

A group of scientists in New Zealand will conduct the first dissection of the mystery spade-toothed whale, which is the ...

While scientists know a lot about many whale species there is one that continues to evade them. The spade-toothed whale is ...

The dissection, conducted alongside Māori iwi members, honors the whale as a sacred “taonga” (treasure) and includes ...

An extremely rare spade-toothed beaked whale is being examined by researchers in New Zealand. Only seven of its kind have ...

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 Monday a small group of ...

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 Monday a small group of ...

Four of the pilot whales died, New Zealand’s conservation agency said. New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot and pilot whales are especially prolific stranders. A team was monitoring ...