Narwhal has the strangest tooth in the sea

Sunday, May 4, 2014 - 16:20 in Biology & Nature

Sometimes called the unicorn of the sea, the male narwhal’s tusk is actually a tooth. Narwhals detect changes in water salinity using only these tusks, a new study finds.

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