“It’s very difficult working on a 1,500- to 1,700-pound marine mammal in the middle of the Arctic Ocean,” he said. In 2014, Nweeia and his team published what he calls their “astounding” discovery: ...

Gnarls is a Pisces. Gnarls was born on March 7, in the Arctic depths of the North Atlantic Ocean somewhere between the Baffin Bay–Davis Strait area, near Greenland, and Svalbard, Norway. Their mother, ...

The meme sums it up: Narwhals, swimming in the ocean and causing a commotion ... still don’t understand some keys details about the Arctic whales’ life cycle, habits, and unique tusks.

They did, however, believe in unicorns. The narwhal, a type of whale that lives in the Arctic Ocean, has one long tooth that ...

“There is lots of evidence to suggest that the mythology which surrounds the unicorn could be based on the appearance of narwhal tusks that were traded down from the Arctic into Europe,” says Richard.