A saber-toothed beaked whale, commonly found in the Bering Sea near Japan, was found washed up and dead in Venice Beach of Los Angeles, California, on Tuesday night.

The very rare 15-foot-long specimen was hauled by a truck to be examined at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum in order to determine how it died.

"We are very lucky," said Nick Fash, an environment specialist who works for the Santa Monica based group Heal the Bay. "This is a treat."

According to Peter Wallerstein, an expert at Marine Animal Rescue, the female whale was alive when it washed ashore with rounded injuries caused by cookie-cutter sharks, one of the smallest sharks species found in the warm equatorial oceans.

Surprisingly, this is the second rare marine animal to wash ashore. On Sunday, a 18-foot-long oarfish was found dead by a marine science instructor in the Southern California coast.