Read Full Story by Lauren Liebhaber The species has only been documented off the Emerald Isle about two dozen times since 1990. | Published March 28, 2025 | Read Full Story by Brendan Rascius The ...

It made international headlines last year. What does a scientific dissection of the world's rarest whale involve?

In July 2024, scientists in Otago, New Zealand, made a stunning discovery: an elusive spade-toothed beaked whale had washed up on the shore ... scientists could examine the species — an animal around ...

New video shows a dead whale that washed ashore in Delaware ... They believe the whale is a juvenile since the species can grow up to 80 feet long. The MERR is currently working with the United ...

"Given everything else we knew about the life history of these species ... Ultra-rare whale never seen alive washes up on on New Zealand beach — and scientists could now dissect it for the ...

Last week, scientists conducted the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the rarest whale species on Earth. New Zealand Department ... When specimens washed up in 2010 and 2017 on ...

When a spade-toothed whale washed up at the mouth of New Zealand’s Taiari River in July ... opportunity it was to learn about a rare species. They immediately put the specimen in a freezer ...

But researchers studying the mammal couldn’t confirm whether the species was extinct until 2010, when two whole spade-toothed whales, both dead, washed up on a New Zealand beach. But none has ...

a species so elusive that only seven specimens have ever been documented. The dead spade-toothed whale washed ashore on New Zealand's South Island earlier this year, offering a chance to study a ...

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But researchers studying the mammal couldn’t confirm whether the species was extinct until 2010, when two whole spade-toothed whales, both dead, washed up on a New Zealand beach. But none has ...