In 2014, Nweeia and his team published what he calls their “astounding” discovery: The narwhal tusk is a sensory organ that can detect subtle changes in the concentration of salt in the surrounding ...

This bizarre beast is made from a rhino skull, mammoth legs, and a narwhal horn. At the time, the people who assembled it thought all the bones were from one creature. In 1663, the various animal ...

Narwhal tusks were once a highly sought-after commodity ... Many adult males wear duelling scars from these encounters and some animals have been found with tusk tips lodged in their skull. Recent ...

The term “narwhal” is Scandinavian and means “corpse whale”, which refers to the creature’s mottle grey-black skin colour – the colour of a corpse. In fact when they are born ...