One winter morning about two years ago, marine mammal scientist Anton van Helden was driving hell-for-leather up to the far north of New Zealand. A thirteen-and-a-half hour haul would take him to the ...

Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from head injuries, an expert said Friday. The first dissection of a spade-toothed whale, a type of beaked ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — The spade-toothed beaked whale is so rare that nobody has seen one alive, but scientists have proof the species still exists. Two skeletons were identified as belonging ...

Quick Take Achieving the first live photographs of a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale ended a 66-year mystery since the species was first described in 1958. The 43-kilohertz signal led to a 60-year ...

Preface -- What is a marine mammal? -- Main groups of marine mammals -- Modern taxonomy of marine mammals -- How to look for marine mammals -- Natural history of marine mammals -- Conservation -- How ...

Recovering the DNA sample involved distracting a curious albatross to recover the biopsy sample. For more than 60 years, the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) was one of the ocean’s ...