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Anton van Helden, an expert on some of the world’s rarest whales, was sitting on the couch in July recovering from surgery, ...

Scientists and culture experts in New Zealand have begun the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the world's ...

An extremely rare spade-toothed beaked whale is being examined by researchers in New Zealand. Only seven of its kind have ...

This was the first time a rare spade-toothed whale was dissected.

The spade-toothed whale, Mesoplodon traversi, is the world's rarest whale. Since 1872, only seven specimens have been found, ...

Scientists in New Zealand are conducting the first-ever dissection of a complete spade-toothed whale, one of the rarest whale ...

A whale species scientists know next to nothing about will undergo the first full dissection in New Zealand after washing ...

Scientists in New Zealand have begun dissecting what is considered the rarest whale in the world, a species so elusive that ...

Scientists met today to dissect the world's seventh known male spade-toothed whale, which washed up near a fishing village in ...