CHRISTCHURCH - 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 ... from New Zealand's Department of Conservation ...

The first-ever dissection of the world ... rarest species of beaked whale with only six specimens confirmed to date, and nobody’s ever seen one alive. Department of Conservation (DOC) staff ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Southwest Fisheries Science Center was on the scene the morning of May 14 after the whale washed ashore the previous night. The carcass was ...

ALAMEDA — A dead gray whale was found rolling in the surf off Alameda South Shore Beach, according to the Marine Mammal Center and the California Academy of Sciences. The whale marks the fourth ...

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.

A dead sea creature washed up on a New York beach ... On May 3, a whale watching ship called a conservation group to report a humpback whale’s carcass floating off the coast of Rockaways ...

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 ...

The carcass of a gray whale washed up on Alameda's South Shore Beach on Monday morning. The cause of death is still being determined. This is the fifth whale to die in the Bay area in recent weeks.

The whale marks the fourth gray whale to wash up in San Francisco Bay this year. It comes less than two weeks after four whales washed up in the San Francisco Bay in a week-and-a-half span ...