Because of the extreme cold, calves are born husky, about one-third the size of their ... of dozens of dead narwhals in East Greenland, the tusks chopped out of the skulls and the meat left ...

Other theories are that male narwhals might use their tusks as a kind of pick to break through or break up channels in the ice, or that the size of the tusk is a visual ... found with tusk tips lodged ...

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 ...