{"id":68062,"date":"2024-12-03T12:26:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T03:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/spade-tooth-rare-whale-new-zealand-scientists-dissect"},"modified":"2024-12-03T12:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-03T03:26:56","slug":"scientists-dissect-worlds-rarest-whale-for-clues-on-little-known-species","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68062","title":{"rendered":"Scientists dissect \u2018world\u2019s rarest whale\u2019 for clues on little-known species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Only seven spade-tooth whales have ever been documented, now work is beginning on a specimen that washed ashore in New Zealand in July<\/p>\n<p>A spade-tooth whale \u2013 thought to be the world\u2019s rarest whale species \u2013 is undergoing dissection in New Zealand, in the first ever examination of a complete specimen.<\/p>\n<p>Spade-toothed whales are a type of beaked whale named for their teeth resembling the spade-like \u201cflensing\u201d blade once used to strip whales of their blubber. Just seven have been documented since the 1800s, with all but one found in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/dec\/03\/spade-tooth-rare-whale-new-zealand-scientists-dissect\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only seven spade-tooth whales have ever been documented, now work is beginning on a specimen that washed ashore in New Zealand in JulyA spade-tooth whale \u2013 thought to be the world\u2019s rarest whale species \u2013 is undergoing dissection in New Zealand, in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2286,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,897,56,1746,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-maori","category-new-zealand","category-whales","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2286"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68085,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68062\/revisions\/68085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}