WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is ...

An extremely rare spade-toothed beaked whale is being examined by researchers in New Zealand. Only seven of its kind have ...

Scientists met today to dissect the world's seventh known male spade-toothed whale, which washed up near a fishing village in ...

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

Scientists in New Zealand have begun dissecting what is considered the rarest whale in the world, a species so elusive that ...

The week-long dissection offers a unique opportunity to study a deep-sea mammal that has never been seen alive.

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

Scientists have been studying the 16-foot male at an agricultural research center in New Zealand.

More than 30 pilot whales that stranded themselves on a beach in New Zealand have been safely returned to the ocean after ...

Little is known about one of the world’s rarest marine creatures, the spade-toothed whale. Now New Zealand researchers hope ...

New Zealand scientists on Monday began dissecting a whale considered the rarest in the world, a species so elusive that only ...

New Zealand scientists have begun a groundbreaking dissection of a spade-toothed whale, widely considered the rarest whale species on Earth. This dee ...