Why in news The spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded. No one knows how many there are, what...
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The spade-toothed whales are the world’s rarest, with no live sightings ever recorded.
No one knows how many there are, what they eat, or even where they live in the vast expanse of the southern Pacific Ocean.
However, scientists in New Zealand may have finally caught a break.
The country’s conservation agency said a creature that washed up on a South Island beach this month is believed to be a spade-toothed whale
Spade Toothed whales
The spade-toothed whale (Mesoplodon traversii) is a very little-known species, the rarest species of beaked whale.
It was first named from a partial jaw found on Pitt Island, New Zealand, in 1872
The species' IUCN Red List conservation status is "Data Deficient (DD)"
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