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Rare Spade-Toothed Whale Washes Ashore in New Zealand Scientists report the extremely elusive spade-toothed whale—a species so obscure it's never been spotted alive—has turned up on a New Zealand shore. On July 4, near a river mouth in Otago, the five-meter-long beaked mammal was discovered. Government researchers made the find. Experts from New Zealand's Department of Conservation and Te Papa, the national museum, identified the rare specimen as a male spade-toothed whale. To confirm its classification, a DNA…