Researchers say an adult female Blainville’s beaked whale was found alive on the beach Friday evening, but later died from ...

A rare juvenile deep-water whale met a sad end in the shallow waters off the Middle Keys on May 30. A kayaking guest at ...

A rare whale species has been spotted off the coast of New England. At the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument off the coast of Cape Cod, scientists got a fleeting glimpse of ...

Spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. No one knows how many there are, what they eat, or even where they live in the vast expanse of the southern Pacific ...

A beaked whale that recently washed up dead on a New Zealand beach likely belongs to the world's rarest cetacean species. If confirmed, researchers could dissect the species for the very first time. A ...

Animal rescue crews responded to a call about a rare ocean mammal that washed ashore on a Jersey Shore beach Thursday. The Marine Mammal Stranding Center was called around 6 a.m. after a dead, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It is the ...

A scientist's rendering of the newly seen spade-toothed beaked whale.Anton van Helden, Museum of New Zealand, courtesy of Current Biology One winter morning about two years ago, marine mammal ...

Guide to the beaked whales. Arnoux's beaked whale ; Baird's beaked whale ; Northern bottlenose whale ; Southern bottlenose whale ; Longman's beaked whale ; Sowerby's beaked whale ; Andrews' beaked ...

The whales are considered "data deficient" because they're so elusive New England Aquarium/Facebook A rare species of whale was sighted off the coast of Cape Cod this month Three True's beaked whales ...