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Scientists Just Dissected the World’s Rarest Whale in New Zealand. Here’s What They Found
Only seven spade-toothed whales have ever been identified, and the species has never been seen alive. After one washed ashore ...
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The World's Rarest Whale Has Been Dissected For The First Time, And Here's What Was ...
Back in July, a mysterious whale carcass washed ashore on the South Island of New Zealand. It was 16 feet long and weighed ...
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Scientists put microphones at the bottom of the Gulf to hear whales. It was eerily quiet.
Scientists initially expected some whale populations to rebound a decade after the BP oil spill. New research suggests they ...
CNN29 天
‘A really stocky, powerful-looking little animal:’ Scientists are gaining precious ...
“A lot of people didn’t believe me,” he added. The spade-toothed whale is the world’s rarest, only seven of its species have ever been recorded. It’s never been spotted alive at se ...
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Scientists, Māori experts uncover new insights into rare spade-toothed whale
The spade-toothed whale is among the rarest and least-studied of whales. Until recently, only six records of the species ...
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World’s rarest whale had never been dissected — until now. Here’s what was discovered
They made a number of discoveries. Photo from the Department of Conservation This summer, a male spade-toothed whale — the world’s rarest whale species — washed ashore in New Zealand ...
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Scientists, Māori experts uncover new insights into rare spade-toothed whale
See All Key Ideas The spade-toothed whale is among the rarest and least-studied of whales. Until recently, only six records of the species existed, collected over the past 150 years. In early ...