Sowerby`s beaked whale (Mesoplodon bidens), also known as the North Atlantic or North Sea beaked whale, was the first mesoplodont whale to be described. James Sowerby, an English naturalist and artist, first described the species in 1804 from a skull obtained from a male that had stranded in the Moray Firth, Scotland, in 1800. He named it bidens,....