A 13-day survey conducted in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone (CCZ) found a large variety of marine life living in the region, ...

In the warm, cobalt waters just off the coast of Dominica —a mountainous Caribbean island often called the "Nature Island"—a ...

The first spade-toothed whale bones were found in 1872 on New Zealand’s Pitt Island. Another discovery was made at an offshore island in the 1950s, and the bones of a third were found on Chile ...

The smallest species of whale tricks its predators by gushing red gallons of red fluid into the water when under attack ...

According to the DOC, the spade-toothed whale was first documented in 1874 from lower jaw and teeth samples collected on Pitt Island, around 500 miles off New Zealand’s west coast.

The spade-toothed whale, Mesoplodon traversi, is the world's rarest whale. Since 1872, only seven specimens have been found, and none have ever been sighted alive at sea.

It was not until 2010 that scientists were able to put a face to the name of the spade-toothed whale when a mother and calf washed up onto New Zealand’s Opape Beach, flesh intact.

A male spade-toothed whale is seen ahead of a dissection at Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel, near Dunedin, New Zealand, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Derek Morrison) ...

Marine biologists are examining the remains of what's believed to be a spade-toothed whale, one of the planet’s rarest marine mammals, which washed ashore on a New Zealand beach on July 4.. The ...

A group got the chance to spot a sea creature off the coast of California, and boaters are calling the experience “amazing.” ...

Scientists mapped dolphin and whale brains to uncover how echolocation works, revealing they may use sound more like touch than sight.