The partial skeleton included 13 vertebrae ... They also used the mass-to-body ratio of manatees, beaked whales, and cetaceans to guesstimate the amount of blubber and soft tissue the ancient ...

New Zealand scientists have made a world first discovery when they identified two skeletons belonging to the spade-toothed beaked whale, which is so rare that nobody has seen one alive.

The five-meter-long creature, a type of beaked whale, was identified after it washed ashore on an Otago beach from its color patterns and the shape of its skull, beak and teeth. “We know very ...