For more than 60 years, the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) was one of the ocean’s greatest mysteries.

Marine biologists are examining the remains of what's believed to be a spade-toothed whale, one of the planet’s rarest marine mammals, which washed ashore on a New Zealand beach on July 4. The ...

SHARON, Conn. (AP) — The narwhal is one of the most mythical and unusual members of the whale family, with its left front tooth, or tusk, that juts about 8 feet into the air, resembling an ivory sword ...

It’s a creature of the deep so rare that there’s never been a recorded live sighting, and since the 1800s only six samples have ever been documented. Now, experts in New Zealand are scrambling to ...

The migrations of sperm whales are impressive, and so, too, are the travels of their teeth. In 2018, a team of archaeologists discovered a fragment of a sperm whale tooth at Valencina, a Copper Age ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of scientists ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — It is the world’s rarest whale, with only seven of its kind ever spotted. Almost nothing is known about the enigmatic species. But on Monday a small group of scientists and ...

An international research team, led by Dr. Samuel Ramírez-Cruzado Aguilar-Galindo, has uncovered an “exceptional” sperm whale tooth at the Copper Age site of Valencina de la Concepción de Guzmán. The ...

Scientists have finally photographed a whale known only from sounds and remains, linking a mysterious deep-sea signal to a ...

For tens of millions of years, whales have been a part of the oceans. Because of this, it would be easy to believe that whales evolved from aquatic creatures as the oceans warmed and became more ...