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

Scientists in New Zealand are conducting the first-ever dissection of a complete spade-toothed whale, one of the rarest whale ...

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 ...

Getty Images While scientists know a lot about many whale species there is one that continues to evade them. The ...

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 ...

New Zealand is a whale-stranding hotspot, with more than 5,000 episodes recorded since 1840, according to the Department of Conservation. The first spade-toothed whale bones were found in 1872 on ...

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 ...