The "unicorn of the sea" was the elusive narwhal, who lived in regions people in Europe had never traveled to. This made it easy to trick Europeans into believing magical unicorns were real ...

According to the animal rescue, Narwhal isn't bothered by his extra tail and is just like "any normal puppy" Unicorns do exist! Staff at Mac’s Mission — an animal rescue service in Jackson ...

The horns of the narwhal were sold on the market as unicorn horns by less-than-scrupulous merchants The ground powder of the narwhal “unicorn” horn was touted as a cure for a number of maladies, ...

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 ...

But these were actually tusks from a narwhal, or toothed whale, that passed as unicorn horns. Even Queen Elizabeth I was gifted an elaborately decorated tusk from an explorer in her court. Similar to ...

It can grow up to three metres long. Narwhal tusks were once a highly sought-after commodity. They were often collected by Inuit and traded to gullible Europeans as actual unicorn horn, It’s possible ...

Narwhal tusks are the stuff of legends, literally. Growing up to ten feet long, they were once believed by some medieval cultures to be the horns of mythical creatures like the unicorn — not to ...

During the Middle Ages, and even earlier, narwhal tusk was sold in Europe and the Far East as unicorn horn. Physicians believed that powdered unicorn horn could cure ills from plague to rabies and ...

where he focuses on human teeth and the narwhal tusk. Not only is the tusk the stuff of legend, giving rise to the myth of the unicorn, but it also “was the perfect candidate to figure out, after all, ...

Narwhal sightings are rare ... You know what I'm talking about, the famous unicorn horn. You see, in Medieval Europe, wealthy people could buy unicorn horns. They looked like these long, spiral ...

Carcasses wash ashore on beaches occasionally, but there is only one documented sighting of a live narwhal in Scottish waters. The Scots have no stronger links to the ‘unicorn of the sea’ than ...