beaked whale in English

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a medium-sized whale with elongated jaws that form a beak, often showing marked differences in size and body form between the sexes.
Although he and his colleagues named a new beaked whale only last year, Mead says that scientists generally describe a whale species perhaps once a decade.

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1. Blainville's Beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris), or the dense-Beaked whale, is believed to be the widest ranging mesoplodont whale

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3. The Cuvier's Beaked whale or goose-Beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) is the most widely distributed of all Beaked whales in the family Ziphiidae

4. A specimen that stranded at Paracas, Peru in 1955 (first tentatively identified as Andrews' beaked whale) has since been identified as a pygmy beaked whale.

5. Among Mesoplodon, only Blainville's Beaked Whale has a wider distribution.

6. Stejneger's Beaked whales, sometimes known as the "Bering Sea Beaked whale" or "saber-toothed whale," are little known members of the Beaked whale family (Ziphiidae).

7. Of Beaked whale species found in Alaska, Stejneger’s Beaked whales are the most commonly reported stranded

8. 7 hours ago · IMAGE: Female Gray's Beaked whale view more Credit: Mark Camm

9. The Peruvian beaked whale (Mesoplodon peruvians) was unknown to science until 1976 and not formally described until 19

10. Beaked whale experts working alongside Sea Shepherd's scientific department managed to take photographs and video recordings of the three …

11. Cases where an adult Stejneger's beaked whale (Mesoplodon stejnegeri), with a mean mass of around 1,100 kg (2,400 lb), and a juvenile Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris), an individual estimated at 3 m (9.8 ft), were hunted and killed by great white sharks have also been observed.

12. Beaked whale, any of more than 20 species of medium-sized toothed whales with an extended snout, including the bottlenose whale

13. They were originally identified as Gray's beaked whale, but later genetic analysis revealed that they represented the first complete specimens of the spade-toothed whale.

14. In 1986, a damaged calvaria was found washed up on Robinson Crusoe Island, Chile, and was described as a new species, Mesoplodon bahamondi or Bahamonde's beaked whale.

15. A calvaria found in the 1950s at White Island, also New Zealand, initially remained undescribed, but was later believed to be from a ginkgo-toothed beaked whale.

16. On January 10, 2009, a female Sowerby's beaked whale was found at the port of Fethiye on the Aegean coast of Turkey, far away from her natural habitat.

17. Cuvier's Beaked whale is pelagic, inhabiting waters deeper than 1,000 feet (300 m).It has the deepest and longest recorded dives among whales at 9,724 feet (2,964 m) and 122

18. Given that True's Beaked whales are found in two geographically distinct areas, it is thought that there might actually be two different species or sub-species of this Beaked whale

19. The body of Cuvier's beaked whale is robust and cigar-shaped, similar to those of other beaked whales, and can be difficult to distinguish from many of the mesoplodont whales at sea.

20. What do Pygmy Beaked whales look like? The pygmy Beaked whale has a slender, spindle-shaped body, a small head, curved mouthline, narrow, sloping forehead and slightly bulging ‘melon’ (top and front of the head)

21. The male Hubbs' Beaked whale is one of the few Beaked whales that can be easily and positively identified at sea due to three very distinctive features; a raised white forehead (or white 'cap'), stocky white elongated beak and a strongly arched lower jaw with 2 large tusks in the middle and clearly visible when the mouth is closed.