“Double tusked narwhals are extremely uncommon,” he told IFLScience. “Both male and female narwhals possess two maxillary ...

First of all, the “horn” is actually called a tusk – which makes me wonder whether or not a unicorn would have a horn or a ...

Male and female narwhals only have two teeth, which are both in the upper jaw. The male’s iconic, spiralling tusk is in fact a canine tooth. It can grow up to three metres long. Narwhal tusks were ...

The tooth, Laidre patiently explains, cannot be essential because most females survive without one. In 2004, Greenland set narwhal-hunting quotas for the first time, despite some hunters' protests ...

scientists have long struggled to understand how narwhals actually use these long, spirally protrusions. The tusks, which are actually an elongated tooth that typically belong to males of the ...

Since he was a child, Martin Nweeia, DMD (DEN ’84), has been fascinated with teeth—from the human variety to the 9-foot spear-shaped tusk that grows out of the head of the narwhal, an Arctic whale.