Whales are a group of mammals that live in oceans. They include some of the largest animals on Earth. The blue whale is the ...

The episode, witnessed off the Australian coast, offers a rare glimpse into the brutal efficiency of the ocean’s top predator.

DNA sequencing in 2002 proved that all three specimens of Mesoplodon traversi were of the same species and distinct from other beaked whales. Because so few specimens have been found and there ...

Experts have suggested that this was an unusually deep dive for this species, and a more normal depth is 2,000 metres. A more recent 5-year study of nearly 3,700 deep dives by 23 beaked whales found ...

While saving these species from extinction provides hope for the future, Dr Sophia Nicolov, AHRC Career Fellow and ...

Firstly mistaken for one of New Zealand's 13 other more common types of beaked whale, tissue samples — taken before they were buried — later revealed them as the enigmatic species.

female beaked whale of the genus Mesoplodon ... Because the specimen could not then be identified to species, this material was laid aside and, in the pressure of other affairs, forgotten.

Australian researchers on Thursday revealed they had filmed a pod of extremely rare Shepherd's beaked whales for the first ... no population estimates of the species exist.

California risk maps are 8 years old Dead bat found at Fremont home tests positive for rabies The first dissection of a spade-toothed whale, a type of beaked whale, was completed last week after a ...

A tragic incident has unfolded in Hartenbos in Mossel Bay, where two beaked whales were found stranded on the shore.