While scientists know a lot about many whale species there is one that continues to evade them. The spade-toothed whale is ...

But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved ...

It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species ...

A whale species scientists know next to nothing about will undergo the first full dissection in New Zealand after washing ...

The United Nations warned Tuesday that the already unprecedented levels of forced displacement are set to worsen in 2025 as ...

A lawyer for one of the men charged in a mass rape trial in France pleaded for leniency on Tuesday, saying his client did not ...

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 variety. In fact, the careful study of the creature -- which ...

Since the 1960s, a strange, repetitious quacking noise called a “bio-duck,” which can frequently be heard in the Southern ...

New Zealand scientists have begun dissecting a spade-toothed whale, considered the rarest whale in the world, marking the ...

A group of scientists in New Zealand will conduct the first dissection of the mystery spade-toothed whale, which is the ...

The dissection, conducted alongside Māori iwi members, honors the whale as a sacred “taonga” (treasure) and includes ...

Scientists and culture experts in New Zealand have begun the first ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the world's ...