Narwhal tusks are the stuff of legends, literally. Growing up to ten feet long, they were once believed by some medieval cultures to be the horns of mythical creatures like the unicorn — not to ...

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 ...

Scientists have finally uncovered the true purpose of the narwhal's iconic tusk – thanks ... mission turns into nine months 10 Foods That Spike Your Insulin And 10 That Help Keep It in Check ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Narwhals are an endangered species, with most of them residing in remote areas of Canada. Not much is known about the species of whale but new drone footage reveals ...

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 ...

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Where do they go? How many are there? What's with the tusk? Narwhals (in the Arctic Ocean) have inspired myth and wonder but are still little known to science. Flip Nicklin / Minden Pictures Even ...

Unusually, narwhals gather not based around traditional familial structure, but rather gender. It isn’t unusual to see a group of 500 narwhals during a migration and it’s mostly females and ...