The peruvian beaked whale (Mesoplodon peruvians) was unknown to science until 1976 and not formally described until 1990.
Other toothed whales are the bottlenose, the beaked whale, and the white whale.
Also known as the Goose-beaked whale, this creature is found as far north as the Shetland Islands and as south as Tierra Del Fuego at the tip of south America.
toothed whales: dolphins; porpoises; sperm whales; beaked whales.
Even within our own class, mammals, roughly 300 new species have been discovered in the first decade of this century-mostly rodents, but also marsupials, a beaked whale and a slew of primates.