The first spade-toothed whale bones were found in 1872 on New Zealand’s Pitt Island. Another discovery was made at an offshore island in the 1950s, and the bones of a third were found on Chile ...

A 13-day survey conducted in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) found a large variety of marine life living in the region, ...

In the warm, cobalt waters just off the coast of Dominica —a mountainous Caribbean island often called the "Nature Island"—a ...

The smallest species of whale tricks its predators by gushing red gallons of red fluid into the water when under attack ...

The spade-toothed whale, Mesoplodon traversi, is the world's rarest whale. Since 1872, only seven specimens have been found, and none have ever been sighted alive at sea.

A male spade-toothed whale is seen ahead of a dissection at Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel, near Dunedin, New Zealand, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Derek Morrison) ...

According to the DOC, the spade-toothed whale was first documented in 1874 from lower jaw and teeth samples collected on Pitt Island, around 500 miles off New Zealand’s west coast.

Toothed whales have a larynx but it doesn't produce sound. Rather, they evolved a "new structure that's located in their nose that generates the sounds — what's called phonic lips," says Elemans.

Marine biologists are examining the remains of what's believed to be a spade-toothed whale, one of the planet’s rarest marine mammals, which washed ashore on a New Zealand beach on July 4.. The ...

Scientists in New Zealand have discovered what they believe may be a rare spade-toothed whale - a creature that's never been spotted alive at sea. A mysterious creature washed up on a beach in ...

During the course of evolution, toothed whales have lost their vocal folds, but evolved an entirely new set of sound sources in the nose." Reporting by Will Dunham, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien.