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.

WELLINGTON--Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest ... a creature that washed up on a South Island beach this month is believed to be a spade-toothed whale. The five-meter-long creature ...

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One of the world’s most elusive animals has just washed up on a beach in New Zealand ... male was a spade-toothed whale and, ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest ... that washed up on a South Island beach this month is believed to be a spade-toothed whale.

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 ... experts from New Zealand's Department of Conservation and ...

and Tumai Cassidy walking beside what appears to be the carcass of a rare spade-toothed whale after it was discovered washed ashore on a beach near Taieri Mouth in New Zealand's southern Otago ...

It was identified by marine-mammal experts from New Zealand's Department of Conservation and the national museum, Te Papa, as a male spade-toothed whale. A DNA investigation has been launched to ...