UEDA, Nagano Prefecture—A nearly complete fossilized skeleton of a beaked whale dating back 13 million years has been unearthed here, the first discovery of its kind in the Northern Hemisphere.

The carcass of a whale found in Hong Kong waters will be buried on Monday but its skeleton will be used for research purposes later, the government has revealed. The Agriculture, Fisheries and ...

A dead beaked whale washed ashore on a Monmouth County beach Thursday, the second dead whale found at the Jersey Shore this year, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center. The stranding ...

Scientists are probing the depths of Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to learn more about elusive beaked whales. The small boat maneuvered within yards of a rare True’s beaked ...

That would bring the number of known beaked whale species to 24. “It is a huge animal, the weight of a Clydesdale horse. Imagine something that big in the terrestrial realm going undiscovered ...

The longest ever recorded dive by a whale was made by a Cuvier's beaked whale. It lasted 222 minutes and broke the record for diving mammals. Other whales can also hold their breath for a very long ...

Whales are accomplished divers. The deepest whale dive recorded so far was made by a Cuvier's beaked whale. A 2014 study used satellite-linked tags to follow the dives of eight beaked whales off the ...

Researchers may have spotted a new species of beaked whale in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Mexico. The whales do not match any previously known 23 species of beaked whales, visually or ...

A baby whale that died shortly after stranding near East Cape has been identified as a species so rare it has only been seen four times before in New Zealand - and never as a new-born. The gingko ...

Australian researchers on Thursday revealed they had filmed a pod of extremely rare Shepherd's beaked whales for the first time ever.The Australian Antarctic Division team was tracking blue whales ...