It was 16 feet long and weighed 3,000 pounds. Cetacean experts were stunned to see that it was a spade-toothed whale. The carcass was in surprisingly good condition, allowing researchers to ...

The spade-toothed whale is extraordinarily rare. So rare, in fact, that until July 4, only five of them have ever been documented. But a spade-toothed whale recently washed up on a beach in Otago ...

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 ...