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

But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved ...

It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species ...

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

Van Helden has studied beaked whales for 35 years, but Monday was the first time he has participated in a dissection of the spade-toothed variety. In fact, the careful study of the creature -- which ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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