World's Rarest
Whale Seen for First Time
The world's rarest whale has been spotted for the
first time, in New Zealand, where two of the whales stranded themselves.
The two spade-toothed beaked whales, a mother and
calf, stranded and died on Opape Beach on the North Island of New Zealand. The mother was 17 feet (5.3 meters) long and the calf was 11
feet (3.5 m) long.
Up until now, very little have been known about the
spade-toothed beaked whale from three partial skulls collected from New Zealand
and Chile over a 140-year period. This is the first time this species has ever
been seen as a complete specimen.
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