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 ...

But these were actually tusks from a narwhal, or toothed whale, that passed as unicorn horns. Even Queen Elizabeth I was ...

The narwhal, often referred to as the “unicorn of the sea” in a nod to its trademark tusk, has long remained an enigma. Scientists have observed few interactions of narwhals in their natural ...

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 ...

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 ...

The horns of the narwhal were sold on the market as unicorn horns by less-than-scrupulous merchants The ground powder of the ...

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 ...

But narwhal experts don't agree on what these observations ... Hundreds of years ago, seafarers brought these tusks home and passed them off as unicorn horns. "It almost seems like it was the ...

Art historians have posited that the red marks on the chained unicorn do not represent blood, but rather pomegranate juice ...