The northern bottlenose whale is the only species of the genus Hyperoodon that lives in the North Atlantic, but there is an unidentified species of whale living in the North Pacific that may turn out to belong to this genus. The northern bottlenose whale has a long, tube-like snout, different in shape from the beaked face of the other whales of the ziphiid family. Learn more about the Hyperoodon ampullatus, more commonly known as a Northern Bottlenosed Whale, in this easy-to-read species overview by the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.