Nature is full of amazing creatures that evolved in fascinating ways. Sometimes, these evolutionary paths lead to physical features that seem downright baffling at first glance. From body parts that ...

Tusks that are discovered with the mammoth’s skull still attached, like this one, are not considered more valuable, notes photographer Evgenia Arbugaeva. She spent two months on the island to ...

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 precision with which they wielded their tusks, it wasn’t like a broadsword. It was like a surgical instrument or the bow of a violin.” In research published last month in the journal ...

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 ...

Officials said the skull’s tusks are approximately 12 feet long and the animal itself weighing 3,000 pounds in life. Museum ambassador, Noah O’Bright, the skull is rare because of its unique ...

Narwhals wield their iconic tusks in surprising ways — possibly even to play with newfound toys. Aerial videos showed the Arctic whales swinging their “horns” to thwack fish prior to eating ...

(CNN) — Scientists say they have the first recorded video evidence of narwhals using tusks not only to strike and manipulate fish during feeding but also engage in what appears to be playful ...

Drone footage has captured narwhals using their iconic long tusks to engage in previously unseen behaviour, including to play with their food. The Arctic whale species, an inspiration for mythical ...