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 ...

The tooth belonging to the whale was probably found along the coast after spending time underwater, as shown by tiny bioerosion marks left by sea creatures. The researchers suggest that after it was ...

The migrations of sperm whales are impressive, and so, too, are the travels of their teeth. In 2018, a team of archaeologists discovered a fragment of a sperm whale tooth at Valencina, a Copper Age ...

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Spade-toothed whales (Mesoplodon traversii) are among the rarest and least-studied whales, partly due to their deep-diving behavior and long periods spent underwater in the vast, underexplored South ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

An Oak Harbor, Wash., man who used to be an antiques dealer and the director of a whaling museum pleaded guilty Thursday in Philadelphia to illegally importing hundreds of sperm whale teeth from ...

Tests on a tissue sample confirm a researchers aboard a vessel near Baja California were they first to observe the species alive Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...