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 ...

This pygmy sperm whale washed ashore on the Avalon Peninsula, says Julie Huntington, offering scientists a glimpse into the ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest ... toothed whale. The five-meter-long creature, a type of beaked whale, was identified after it washed ashore ...

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 ...

The body of a spade-toothed whale -- a species so rare it has never been seen alive ... "Since the 1800s, only six samples have ever been documented worldwide, and all but one of these was ...

The body of a spade-toothed whale -- a species so rare it has never been seen alive -- appears to have washed up on a New Zealand beach, scientists say. The remains of the obscure, five-metre (16. ...

Spade-toothed whales are one of the most poorly known mammalian species of modern times A carcass of a rare spade-toothed whale was discovered washed ashore ... samples have ever been documented ...