The first dissection of a spade-toothed whale, a type of beaked whale, was completed last week after a painstaking examination at a research center near the New Zealand city of Dunedin ...

Beaked whales can dive 2,000 metres below the ocean's surface. Why and how do they do it? Around 2,000 metres below the surface, the water is freezing, black and seemingly impenetrable. No light ...

Whale expert Anton van Helden, who has studied beaked whales for 35 years and described them as "the most enigmatic group of large mammals on the planet," expressed his excitement about the discovery.

Scientists are probing the depths of Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument to learn more about elusive beaked whales. The small boat maneuvered within yards of a rare True’s beaked ...

The Shepherd's beaked whale, also known as the Tasman beaked whale, was discovered in 1937 but little is known about them. Categories: Environment , International .

A wildlife ranger says the discovery of a beached whale, believed to be a beaked whale, on South Australia's Kangaroo Island ...

Whales are accomplished divers. The deepest whale dive recorded so far was made by a Cuvier's beaked whale. A 2014 study used satellite-linked tags to follow the dives of eight beaked whales off the ...

Findings included recordings of multiple near-miss events with fin whales and Cuvier’s beaked whales. The observed fin whales tended not to react to the ship’s presence. High rates of fin ...

In September 2002, 14 beaked whales washed ashore in the Canary Islands bleeding from the ears. All eventually died. A post-mortem examination revealed that the whales showed signs of ...

The largest declines were found in beaked whales, according to the study. They were initially observed at all three of the deepest sites where data was gathered, but had declined by over 70% ...