World's rarest whale seen for the first time

"This is the first time this species—a whale over five meters in length—has ever been seen as a complete specimen, and we were lucky enough to find two of them," says Rochelle Constantine of the University of Auckland. "Up until now, all we have known about the spade-toothed beaked whale was from three partial skulls collected from New Zealand and Chile over a 140-year period. It is remarkable that we know almost nothing about such a large mammal."

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Looks ugly.
If something that big can go un-detetcted for so long, then think about all the deep sea predators that don't come near the surface we haven't discovered.

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The sad thing is we didn't even get to see them until they washed up dead on the beach.

Sadder still is that for all we know this could be the last 2 of it's species that died and we have never seen or filmed this whale alive!

Wow, if this animal managed to avoid contact with humans up until its own extinction, I would say that's potentially one hell of a mark of intelligence, and of a happy existence Good for them!

Could the incidents of whales beaching themselves enmass be due to a pole change? They navigate using the same principle as birds. Just a thought.

Originally posted by Oannes
Could the incidents of whales beaching themselves enmass be due to a pole change? They navigate using the same principle as birds. Just a thought.

No, all this pole change nonsense needs to stop. It's easilly testable, has not happened.