#Beakedwhale, #Sydney Harbour #Australia.

Unfortunately, this whale passed away naturally.

Thank you to the entire ORRCA team, local Sydney legends, NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (and their large whale disentanglement team!), NSW Maritime, Taronga Zoo and the Australian Musuem.

A Cuvier’s beaked whale surfacing in deep blue ocean water, with visible light scars on its back. Water splashes around its body as it emerges.

🐋 New #dataset available!
18 Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) occurrences in the North Atlantic Ocean.
Accessible via #Eurobis:
https://eurobis.pulse.ly/binknw7pz3

#CuvierBeakedWhale #BeakedWhale #Ziphiidae #MarineData #Biodiversity #OpenData
@vliz.be @emodnet.bsky.social @obis.org

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Silent giants revealed! 🐳 Scientists “saw” a rare whale—by listening. 🌊 Reconstructed its deep-dive world in the Gulf of Mexico! ✨ #BeakedWhale

Source: phys.org/news/2026-02-acoustic-re...

Vector illustration of Flandriacetus gijseni, a large longirostrine beaked whale from the late Miocene of the North Sea, swimming towards the viewer. Its mouth is lined with many small, sharp teeth with two larger tusks at the tip of its lower jaw. It is black with lighter brown around its shoulders, with white on the tip of its snout, around the back of its head and on its belly. Text reads: Flandriacetus gijseni. Klaas Post, Mark Bosselaers and Dirk Munsterman. "A new longirostrine beaked whale Flandriacetus gijseni gen. et. sp. nov. (Ziphiidae, Cetacea, Mammlia) from the Tortonian of the North Sea Basin." Deinsea 23: 1-31 Dec 18 2025

#Cenozoicrewind2025 Last but not least, meet Flandriacetus gijseni!

#paleoart #vectorart #beakedwhale

#fossilfriday skull of an extinct beak whale from the Pliocene of southern California. Used to be on display at the San Diego Natural History Museum (took this in 2003 with my first ever digital camera, a mere 2 mp).

#sandiegonaturalhistorymuseum #prehistoriccalifornia #beakedwhale #marinemammal

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Unusual Sighting: A diver discovered in Taiwan a dead beaked whale
"2025, December 17. Taiwan, Xiaoliuqiu, Shanfufu Fishing Harbor. Beaked whale, about 4 meters long at a depth of 12 meters. The cause of death is currently unknown."

#Ziphiid #BeakedWhale #Taiwan

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An extremely rare female Hubbs Beaked Whale washed up at Jug Handle Beach on the Mendocino Coast & the skeleton is now on display at Noyo Center for Marine Science Discovery Center, downtown Fort Bragg, California.

After 2 years of bone cleaning & all hands on deck with the articulation, the Hubbs Beaked Whale is finally on display at Noyo Center’s Discovery Center today!
Downtown Fort Bragg, California. 💙🐋

#whales #beakedwhale #marinescience

The Strap-Toothed Whale is among the rarest mammals on Earth. The beaked whales are extremely elusive, and not much is known about them. Strap-toothed whale males grow tusks that may wrap around their top jaws in their old age, starving them to death.
#digitalart #natureart #whale #beakedwhale

A quick warmup for today: Tropical Bottlenose Whale (Indopacetus pacificus)!
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#art #whale #cetacean #beakedwhale

Purple Urchin shells lined up on a fence with a dock & the Noyo River in the background. Noyo Center for Marine Science, Field Station at Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg, California.

3 large male California Sealions basking in the sun on the public dock at Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg, Ca.

Purple Sea Urchin in an aquaculture tank at Noyo Center’s Field Station in Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg, California.

Skull of a rare & elusive Hubbs Beaked Whale. Noyo Center for Marine Science are getting ready to articulate this complete skeleton.

Hanging out at the Field Station, Noyo Harbor, Fort Bragg, Ca.

#urchin #sealions #beakedwhale

Baird’s Beaked Whales in Monterey. Read the full story here: buff.ly/mZc3H0k
Photo by Patrick
This is an encounter from 2023
#WhaleTales #BeakedWhale

Highest vs. Lowest Living: The yak can live at altitudes up to 20,000 feet (6,100 meters). Conversely, Cuvier's beaked whale holds the record for deepest plunging to 9,816 feet (2,992 meters) below sea level. #BlackMammalogists #Yak #BeakedWhale #ExtremeMammalHabitats

'Exceedingly rare, extremely elusive': Baby whale identified after stranding near East Cape in May The whale was discovered on a beach at Te Kaha and has finally been identified through DNA analysis.

#NewZealand #beakedwhale #ziphiidae

On May 18, a 2 m baby #whale stranded and died at Te Kaha in New Zealand. Through DNA analysis, we don't know that this individual was a #gingotooth #whale

Ultra-rare whale never seen alive washes up on on New Zealand beach — and scientists could now dissect it for the 1st time A beaked whale that recently washed up dead on a New Zealand beach likely belongs to the world's rarest cetacean species. If confirmed, researchers could dissect the species for the very first time.

"Ultra-rare #BeakedWhale never seen alive washes up on on New Zealand beach — and scientists could now dissect it for the 1st time"

www.livescience.com/animals/whal....

Project Animalia #713
Baird's beaked whale (Berardius bairdii)

More whales...

#sciart #bioart #wildlifeart #animalart #natureart #animallover #medart #whales #beakedwhale