By Yan Zhuang Residents of New Zealand, a hot spot for whale and dolphin strandings, are used to finding large sea creatures beached on their shores. But the creature that washed up on a beach in ...

Now, experts in New Zealand are scrambling to confirm whether a 5-meter (16-foot) carcass that recently washed ashore on the country’s South Island is the near-mythical spade-toothed whale.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ... In fact, the careful study of the creature — which washed up dead on a New Zealand beach in July ...

One of the world’s rarest sea creatures is believed to have been found washed up near a small fishing village in New Zealand. Experts have hauled the beached whale’s lifeless body and placed ...

A dead gray whale measuring about 50 feet in length washed up on the shore in Huntington Beach Friday afternoon, the city’s fire department Marine Safety Division said in a social media post on ...

A woman wearing a Lowcountry Marine Mammal Network T-shirt pours water on the beached whale on May 4, 2025. Water and sheets were used to keep the whale cool and moist in the summer heat.

Marine scientists may learn more about the "rarest whale" in the world after a spade-toothed whale washed up on an Otago beach ... possibly the "world's rarest," according to the DOC.

The whale was found near an estuary in Otago province A whale that was found dead on a beach in New Zealand earlier this month has been identified by scientists as a spade-toothed whale - a ...

Creature that washed up on South Island is believed to be spade-toothed whale Only six other spade-toothed whales have ever been pinpointed Spade-toothed whales are the world's rarest, with no ...

A whale that was found dead on ... findings of stranded whales off New Zealand's North Island in 2010 and 2017 added to the small collection. Sign up for our Future Earth newsletter to get ...

A whale which washed up on a New Zealand beach is an incredibly ... beak and teeth. The country's Department of Conservation said the 5 metre-long (16ft) whale had been found on the South Island ...