Longman's Beaked Whale was known only from two skulls for nearly 80 years before living sightings and strandings confirmed it as a real species in the early 2000s. It is a large, little-known beaked whale of tropical Indo-Pacific and Atlantic waters, occasionally sighted well offshore of Hawaii and Mexico. It forms large aggregations unusual for beaked whales.
Habitat
Warm deep offshore tropical oceanic waters
Diet
Squid and deep-water fish
How common
Very rare
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