“For me personally, it’s unbelievable.” Van Helden has studied beaked whales for 35 years, but Monday was the first time he has participated in a dissection of the spade-toothed variet ...

This past July 4th, a rare beaked whale washed up on a beach in New Zealand. This species is so elusive it has never been seen alive, so its appearance now, even as a carcass, is quite surprising.

“For me personally, it’s unbelievable.” Van Helden has studied beaked whales for 35 years, but Monday was the first time he has participated in a dissection of the spade-toothed variet ...

“For me personally, it’s unbelievable.” Van Helden has studied beaked whales for 35 years, but Monday was the first time he has participated in a dissection of the spade-toothed variet ...

The first dissection of a spade-toothed whale, a type of beaked whale, was completed last week after a painstaking examination at a research center near the New Zealand city of Dunedin ...

In July 2024, scientists in Otago, New Zealand, made a stunning discovery: an elusive spade-toothed beaked whale had washed up on the shore. The whale had never been seen in the wild, and finding a ...

DNA sequencing in 2002 proved that all three specimens were of the same species — and that it was one distinct from other beaked whales. Researchers studying the mammal couldn’t confirm if the ...

The country's conservation agency said Monday 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, a type of beaked ...

A dead beaked whale washed ashore on a Monmouth County beach Thursday, the second dead whale found at the Jersey Shore this year, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. The stranding ...

“For me personally, it’s unbelievable.” Van Helden has studied beaked whales for 35 years, but Monday was the first time he has participated in a dissection of the spade-toothed variet ...

“For me personally, it’s unbelievable.” Van Helden has studied beaked whales for 35 years, but Monday was the first time he has participated in a dissection of the spade-toothed variet ...