With their long, spiral tusks, narwhals (Monodon monoceros) look like something out of a fairy tale. Primarily seen in male narwhals, these single elongated teeth that can grow up to 10 feet.

From the genome of a mystery-animal’s skull found in West Greenland in 1990, scientists have identified the creature as the male offspring of a female narwhal and male beluga, they reported yesterday ...

Many adult males wear duelling scars from these encounters and some animals have been found with tusk tips lodged in their skull. Recent drone footage has shed some light on the feeding practices of ...

New video taken in the remote Canadian High Arctic sheds light on how narwhals use their famous spiral tusks, which are essentially long teeth, to hunt and play with their food. Narwhal tusks are ...

It had unusual teeth — miniature tusks on the upper jaw, and corkscrew-like lower teeth — and looked different from the skulls of both belugas and narwhals. The study, which included a ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Drones have provided the first evidence of narwhals using their tusks in the wild for foraging, exploration, and play. The tusks were observed manipulating and ...