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 ...

New video taken in the remote Canadian High Arctic sheds light on how narwhals use their famous spiral tusks, which are essentially long teeth, to hunt and play with their food. Narwhal tusks are ...

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 ...

Of the 18 chompers lining the front of the skull’s mouth, some were twisted, not unlike a narwhal’s tusk. But the 30-year-old specimen, hidden away in the basement of the Natural History Museum of ...