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Often dubbed the unicorns of the sea, narwhals are strange and beautiful creatures with long tusks protruding from their heads. Members of the population of more than 80,000 can weigh up to 4,200 ...

Narwhals have fascinated and confounded humans for centuries. Now an exhibition at Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum is diving into the mystery, history and science of these elusive tusked ...

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Gabrielle’s debut book, Look Ma, No Hands: A Chronic Pain Memoir, will be published in 2025 — and I can’t wait to get my hands on that too. So when The Narwhal’s creative director Shawn Parkinson ...

The meme sums it up: Narwhals, swimming in the ocean and causing a commotion, really are awesome. The “unicorns of the sea” have fascinated mariners and royalty for centuries, yet scientists ...

Morning Report producer and Squishmallow fan Charlotte Mulder explained this year has been an interesting one for the toy industry, with the cost-of-living crisis impacting parents' choices. "Lots of ...

A pair of narwhal tusks, maybe two metres high, frame a fireplace, its stone interior carved with a flaming salamander; and a small bronze statue of Mercury, made in 1580 by the virtuoso ...

narwhals, highland cows or capybaras. And though recent trends skew toward the offbeat or obscure (take, for example, the microscopic tardigrade, also known as the “water bear”), there are ...

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