Beaked

A Gervais’ beaked whale, a very rare species of whale that lives 300 miles+ offshore, was found alive on the beach in Emerald Isle, North Carolina late last month.

Dating to the Cretaceous Period, it shows the four-legged mammal Repenomamus robustus - the size of a domestic cat - ferociously entangled with the beaked two-legged dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis - as big as a medium-sized dog.

The fossil shows a badgerlike creature chomping down on a small, beaked dinosaur, their skeletons intertwined.

The short-beaked echidna is featured on the Australian 5c piece.

Killer whales attack Cuvier's beaked whale in Bremer Canyon bloodbath off Western Australia.

The summer months bring special moments to those living in the Yarra Ranges as the short-beaked echidna goes about its day and can often be spotted clambering through backyards and trying to cross roads.

Altair, Ezio, and Connor all had beaked hoods, which helped further hide their identities.

Over the past few weeks there have been 29 strandings or sightings of rare beaked whales throughout Europe - and experts think a sonar exercise is to blame.

This causes beaked whales, specifically the Cuvier species, to beach.

A beaked whale for example has a small bulge sitting on top of its skull, whereas a sperm whale's head is filled up mainly with the melon.sfnsfnsfnsfn The whale eye is relatively small for its size, yet they do retain a good degree of eyesight.

Besides a large variety of marine fish, the plumbeous dolphin, the beaked dolphin, rorqual or blue whale, and skates frequent the seas along the Sindh coast.

For example, male sperm whales are up to 63% percent larger than females, and many beaked whales possess tusks used in competition among males.

Hooked non-returning boomerangs, known as "beaked kylies", used in northern Central Australia, have been claimed to kill multiple birds when thrown into a dense flock.

It was thought that Sowerby's beaked whale evolved to swim fast in a straight line, and a convert was not big enough.sfn There have been attempts to keep baleen whales in captivity.

Sowerby's beaked whale and the Clymene dolphin exist only in the Atlantic and the Pacific white-sided dolphin and the northern straight dolphin live only in the North Pacific.