Scientists and culture experts in New Zealand have begun the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the world's ...
Scientists in New Zealand have begun dissecting what is considered the rarest whale in the world, a species so elusive that ...
A whale species scientists know next to nothing about will undergo the first full dissection in New Zealand after washing ...
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of ...
The week-long dissection offers a unique opportunity to study a deep-sea mammal that has never been seen alive.
Scientists in New Zealand have begun a historic dissection of the rarest whale species in the world. The discovery of a male spade-toothed whale—which washed up near the fishing village of ...
New Zealand is a whale-stranding hotspot, with more than 5,000 episodes recorded since 1840, according to the Department of Conservation. The first spade-toothed whale bones were found in 1872 on ...
A whale species scientists know next to nothing about will undergo the first full dissection after washing ashore on a New Zealand beach this summer. Since the 1800s, only six other spade-toothed ...