Anton van Helden, an expert on some of the world’s rarest whales, was sitting on the couch in July recovering from surgery, ...

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Scientists and culture experts in New Zealand have begun the first-ever dissection of a spade-toothed whale, the world's ...

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Getty Images While scientists know a lot about many whale species there is one that continues to evade them. The ...

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But on Monday a small group of scientists and cultural experts in New Zealand clustered around a near-perfectly preserved ...

It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species ...

A whale species scientists know next to nothing about will undergo the first full dissection in New Zealand after washing ...

International scientist's, Alexander Werth, from left, professor Joy Reidenberg and Michael Denk study a male spade-toothed ...

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