Incredibly Rare Spade-Toothed Whale Dissected for the First Time Ever
Scientists recently cut into the body of a spade-toothed whale, one of the world's rarest animals. It was the first time ...
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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 Discovered In The Process
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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The world’s rarest whale will be dissected — here’s why it’s so important
But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved spade-toothed whale hoping to decode decades of mystery. “I can’t tell ...
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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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‘A really stocky, powerful-looking little animal:’ Scientists are gaining precious clues about the world’s rarest whale
But this was no ordinary whale. “I immediately went, ‘Oh my goodness, it’s a spade-toothed whale!’” the senior marine science adviser for New Zealand’s Department of Conservation (DOC ...
World’s rarest whale had never been dissected — until now. Here’s what was discovered
Spade-toothed whales, a type of beaked whale, were first discovered in 1874 after a jaw bone was found in New Zealand’s ...
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Scientists dissect world’s rarest whale, reveal cause of death and more ‘remarkable’ findings
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 ...
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New Zealand scientists suspect specimen of world's rarest whale died from head injuries
The first dissection of a spade-toothed whale, a type of beaked whale, was completed last week after a painstaking examination at a research center near the New Zealand city of Dunedin ...
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This whale species is so rare it’s never been seen alive. A first-ever dissection may bare its mysteries.
International scientist's, Alexander Werth, from left, professor Joy Reidenberg and Michael Denk study a male spade-toothed whale ahead of a dissection at Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel ...
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New Zealand scientists suspect specimen of world's rarest whale died from head injuries
Scientists suspect the first complete specimen ever recorded of the world’s rarest whale died from head injuries.