The marine mammal was a spade-toothed whale, Mesoplodon traversii, the rarest species of beaked whale with only six specimens confirmed to date, and nobody’s ever seen one alive. Department of ...

The pygmy whale is the only species that makes its home in the ocean off of South Carolina year round. Beaked whales, humpback whales, North Atlantic right whales, pilot whales and sperm whales ...