Long ago, on a faraway Aleutian island, a pair of rare beaked whales got stranded. One was saved by biologists and swam back ...

More than 60 miles off the coast of Baja, California, the crew of the Pacific Storm hauled an underwater microphone behind their boat while scanning the horizon with binoculars for signs of life. For ...

The post Deep-Sea Ghost: How Scientists Finally Caught the Whale No One Had Ever Seen appeared first on A-Z Animals. Recovering the DNA sample involved distracting a curious albatross to recover the ...

Beaked whales spend most of their time swimming in dark depths, and as they become vulnerable to extinction, this study provides remarkable clues about their behavior.

Scientists have captured a rare view of one of the ocean's least understood whales—without ever seeing it. By listening to the sounds beaked whales naturally produce, researchers have reconstructed a ...

A “rare” True’s beaked whale recently washed ashore in Ireland in what experts say is part of a cluster of strandings. Photo from Milomc123, UnSplash Two rare deep-sea whales recently washed up on ...

Guide to the beaked whales. Arnoux's beaked whale ; Baird's beaked whale ; Northern bottlenose whale ; Southern bottlenose whale ; Longman's beaked whale ; Sowerby's beaked whale ; Andrews' beaked ...

Scientists used underwater sound recordings to reconstruct 3D dive and hunting behavior of elusive beaked whales in the Gulf ...

The whales are considered "data deficient" because they're so elusive New England Aquarium/Facebook A rare species of whale was sighted off the coast of Cape Cod this month Three True's beaked whales ...

For more than 60 years, the ginkgo-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon ginkgodens) was one of the ocean’s greatest mysteries. Although identified in 1958, our basic understanding of this rare whale was ...