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.

And what was the source of the horn given to Emperor Ferdinand? In the late stages of the 16th century, European explorers ...

Our marine mammal expert Richard Sabin takes us through what scientists know – and don’t know – about narwhals, also known as unicorns of the sea. Ask a world-leading scientist a silly question, get a ...

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 ...

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 ...

What are the narwhals up to? Generally ... You know what I'm talking about, the famous unicorn horn. You see, in Medieval Europe, wealthy people could buy unicorn horns. They looked like these ...

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 ...

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.