A sperm whale recently washed up on a beach in South Africa, a strikingly rare occurrence that hasn’t happened in recent ...

There are usually between 20 and 26 large teeth on each side of the whale’s lower jaw, while the teeth in the upper jaw typically don’t break through the gums. Male sperm whales can measure 60 ...

Cuvier’s beaked whale in Thailand found with air embolism, infections, and drowning signs, leading to its death.

It made international headlines last year. What does a scientific dissection of the world's rarest whale involve?

The first evidence of the spade-toothed whale’s existence came in 1874, when lower jaw and teeth samples were collected on Pitt Island, around 500 miles off New Zealand’s west coast.

“This revealed the extent of the rest of the entanglement, which wrapped around the whale’s lower jaw and again around its ...

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: It's some sort of whale, that much we know ... It actually has two tusk teeth either side of the lower jaw, and that's really characteristic. DETROW: Van Helden says on July ...

A team of biologists, pathologists, and veterinarians begin to remove the lower jaw from the body of right whale 5120 after it washed ashore dead on Martha's Vineyard in January, 2024. They ...

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 ...

The right whale appears almost upside-down, the smaller upper jaw visible above the surface, the lower jaw below. From the boat, I could see the whale’s entanglement scarring. This, I learned ...