Marine scientists may learn more about the "rarest whale" in the world after a spade-toothed whale washed up on an Otago beach in New Zealand. According to the New Zealand Department of ...
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Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. No one knows how many there are, what they eat, or even where they live in the vast expanse of the southern ...
"Since the 1800s, only six samples have ever been documented worldwide," DOC Coastal Otago Operations Manager Gabe Davies said Department of Conservation/AP Rare spade-toothed whale in New Zealand ...
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 beach, scientists say. The remains of the obscure, five-metre (16. ...
Marine-mammal experts believe that the creature was a male spade-toothed whale, a species of whale so rare that virtually nothing is known about them. Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest ...
Since the spade-toothed whale was first described in 1874, just six samples have been documented worldwide - Copyright New Zealand Department of Conservation/AFP ...