Researchers off the coast of Baja California, Mexico, confirmed two ginkgo-toothed beaked whales alive at sea for the first time in the species’ recorded history, then used a crossbow-fired biopsy ...

A pod of Baird’s beaked whales appeared in waters off central California this spring, marking the first confirmed visual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lead image: Andrea Izzotti / Shutterstock (Beaked whale underwater. Credit: Andrea Izzotti / Shutterstock.) Researchers from the ...

The post Deep-Sea Ghost: How Scientists Finally Caught the Whale No One Had Ever Seen appeared first on A-Z Animals. Recovering the DNA sample involved distracting a curious albatross to recover the ...

A rare Sowerby's beaked whale washed up dead on Canvey Island in Essex, prompting officials to block off the U.K. beach and warn the public to stay away. Investigations are underway to determine the c ...

The massive necropolis, located deep in the southeastern Indian Ocean, is teeming with marine life supported by the whale carcasses, including many suspected new species ...

The Kruzof stranding wasn’t the only one this summer. A second beaked whale was found beached in Yakutat in early June.

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 ...

Scientists have captured a rare view of one of the ocean's least understood whales—without ever seeing it. By listening to the sounds beaked whales naturally produce, researchers have reconstructed a ...

For more than 60 years, the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) was one of the ocean’s greatest mysteries. Although identified in 1958, our basic understanding of this rare whale was ...