Since he was a child, Martin Nweeia, DMD (DEN ’84), has been fascinated with teeth—from the human variety to the 9-foot spear-shaped tusk that grows out of the head of the narwhal, an Arctic whale.
Caption Like walruses and elephants, male narwhals (Monodon monoceros) grow tusks; these are modified teeth. In narwhals, the left tooth erupts from their head, reaching more than 8-feet-long in ...
The pair obtained the narwhal tusks from a Canadian supplier, known by both men to have illegally imported the tusks from Canada into the United States. Conrad pleaded guilty in the US District Court ...
"Narwhal are unicorn-like not just in their appendages, but in their elusiveness." Despite the mystery, narwhals are in focus, because a 5-foot tusk was used this month by a Londoner to help stop ...
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The Right Chemistry: Unicorn horn or narwhal tusk? Either way, the healing powers were mythicalIn the late stages of the 16th century, European explorers reached the Arctic and came across the narwhal, a species of whale ...
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2. A narwhal’s tusk is actually a tooth. The narwhal’s scientific name, Monodon monoceros, refers to their singular ...
A man has described how he fought off the London Bridge knifeman with a narwhal tusk before pinning him to the ground to help end the attack. Darryn Frost, 38, was seen in pictures confronting ...
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 ...
The most extraordinary feature of the narwhal is the long, spiral tusk which always has a left- handed spiral. No one is sure why it twists this way. The tusk, which measures up to 3m in length ...
WWF is glad to be able to provide support to this project partnership of the local Inuit community of Pond Inlet, the Nunavut Wildlife Management Board, the Canadian Federal Department of Fisheries ...
A convicted murderer who used a narwhal tusk to confront the London Bridge attacker in 2019 will see his 17-year prison sentence reduced under a royal pardon, according to the Ministry of Justice.
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