Early illustration of two narwhals, or sea unicorns by E Cuvier ... They were often collected by Inuit and traded to gullible Europeans as actual unicorn horn, It’s possible that the spiral shape ...

Videos show narwhals using their tusks in several ways, including prodding and flipping a fish. It’s the first reported evidence of the whales playing.

Narwhals (in the Arctic Ocean ... Though the whales' scientific name is Monodon monoceros, "one tooth, one horn," an occasional male has two tusks (the NMNH has two rare specimens) and only ...

Growing up to ten feet long, they were once believed by some medieval cultures to be the horns of ... surroundings. "Narwhals are known for their 'tusking' behavior, where two or more of them ...

Screengrab from Florida Atlantic University, YouTube Humans have long been fascinated with narwhal tusks. During the Middle Ages, the long, spiraled teeth — mistaken for unicorn horns — were ...

Each male has a tusk, and occasionally two tusks, but fewer than ... The great spiralling tusks of the narwhal, which were believed to be the horns of unicorns, were safeguarded in Churches ...

The mysterious horns, he declared, belong to narwhals. Thanks to the male’s ... Image: O’Corry-Crowe, FAU/Watt, DFO This toothed whale has only two teeth, one on each side of its mouth.