Only seven spade-toothed whales have ever been identified, and the species has never been seen alive. After one washed ashore ...

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

Scientists have started exploring the history, evolution, and society of arguably one of the world's rarest whales.

Spade-toothed whales, a type of beaked whale, were first discovered in 1874 after a jaw bone was found in New Zealand’s ...

A 38-day expedition in the remote Alto Mayo region, where development threatens wild habitats, turned up one previously ...

T he forests of Maui have just become home to the world’s rarest crow for the first time. Five ‘alalā, also called the ...

Keen-eyed wildlife patrols spotted the figure from a distance while surveying Khao Sam Roi Yot National Park. They zoomed in ...

the Gobi bear is one of the rarest animals on Earth This was my second year of attempting to film them, and although my team had managed to gather footage of bears using remote cameras ...

Malayan tapirs are solitary, largely nocturnal and exclusively plant-eating mammals, according to wildlife officials. They ...

The spade-toothed whale is the world’s rarest, only seven of its species ... in New Zealand to dissect the 16-foot, 3,000-pound, mammal — marking the first time anyone has ever seen inside ...