reaffirmed that unicorn horns were actually narwhal tusks, but claimed he had been able to halt a fever epidemic in ...

Unlike our own teeth, the narwhal tusk is soft on the outside and gradually gets hard and dense on the inside. It’s thought that narwhals could be the origin of the unicorn myth. The great ...

He also is a part-time lecturer at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine and a member of the Department of Vertebrate Zoology at the Smithsonian Institution, where he focuses on human teeth and the ...

The male’s iconic, spiralling tusk is in fact a canine tooth. It can grow up to three metres long. Narwhal tusks were once a highly sought-after commodity. They were often collected by Inuit and ...

a hodgepodge of incomplete animal skeletons were arranged together into what is now called the "Magdeburg Unicorn". This bizarre beast is made from a rhino skull, mammoth legs, and a narwhal horn ...