The five-metre long, beaked creature's identity was determined from its colour patterns and the shape of its skull ... little is known about the spade-toothed whale. Researchers say the carcass ...

The first discovery of a spade-toothed whale was a single jawbone with teeth, collected from New Zealand’s Pitt Island in 1872. Next came two skulls without jawbones, one found on New Zealand ...

It was identified as a male spade-toothed whale by marine mammal experts from ... based on its color patterns and the shape of its skull, beak and teeth. Scientists said that a DNA test had ...

Narwhals, Monodon monoceros, are toothed whales that live mostly in Arctic coastal waters and inlets ... if you look inside the upper jaw and remove sections of bone as we have done with a few skulls ...

The spade-toothed whale is the world’s rarest ... around 500 miles off New Zealand’s west coast. Two more partial skulls, one in New Zealand and one in Chile, later enabled scientists to ...

Scientists in New Zealand recently performed the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale. They made a number of discoveries. Photo from the Department of Conservation This summer ...