That would bring the number of known beaked whale species to 24. “It is a huge animal, the weight of a Clydesdale horse. Imagine something that big in the terrestrial realm going undiscovered ...

The five-meter-long creature, a type of beaked whale, was identified after it washed ashore on an Otago beach from its color patterns and the shape of its skull, beak and teeth. “We know very ...