The magnificent narwhal — a beast that has inspired monarchs and intrigued scientists — has quite the reputation. The spotted whales, found mostly in Greenland and Canada, are striking because of a ...

Narwhal is a little different from the other puppies. He has a perfect little tail growing out of the middle of his forehead, which is the opposite end from where dogs usually have their tails. Mac’s ...

The narwhal's spiraling tusk has a way of hypnotizing those who study it. The 17th-century Danish zoologist Olaus Wörm, for example, grew fascinated with these ivory spars, struggling to unveil their ...

Narwhals look like they swam out of a medieval legend, complete with a spiraling “horn.” That famous "horn" is actually ...

For centuries, the purpose of a narwhal’s tusk has eluded explanation. Now, researchers suggest that these small whales use their tusks as sensory organs and speculate that sensing changes in seawater ...

Researchers have long debated what the 10-foot-long tooth that erupts from a narwhal’s head is actually for. Perhaps it has something to do with sexual selection, and males with longer horns attract ...

(Phys.org) —A team of researchers studying narwhal and beluga whales in their native Arctic ecosystem has found what appears to be a correlation between testes mass and tusk length in ...