Earlier this year, a spade-toothed beaked whale washed up on a New Zealand beach, offering researchers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Known as Mesoplodon traversii, this species is so elusive ...

The spade-toothed whale is a member of the beaked whale family, which gets its name for its “dolphin-like” snouts, according to the DOC. They are a diverse and elusive group of mammals ...

When the five-meter male whale came ashore in Otago, South Island, in July, it excited cetacean scientists. The elusive beaked whale is known as a spade-toothed whale because of its teeth ...

The first dissection of a spade-toothed whale, a type of beaked whale, was completed last week after a painstaking examination at a research center near the New Zealand city of Dunedin ...