Word: narwhal
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...centuries long case of mistaken identity, we've finally rounded up another suspect. The June 11 discovery of a one-year-old, one-horned deer may put Bambi in the company of the rhinoceros, the narwhal and the oryx as creatures who spawned the enduring myth of the unicorn...
...course, there are optimists who think that somehow the unicorns managed to survive, morphing, slowly over the years into the bizarre but documented flesh-and-blood narwhal, a member of the porpoise and whale family that does indeed have a single, twisty tooth which it uses for mating and to pick holes through the ice. Indeed, perhaps that's what became of the unicorns that never made it onto the ark. They took to the sea. Throughtout the centuries, the narwahl's long, corkscrewing tooth was sold as a unicorn's horn, proof that the most elusive of creatures existed...
Following four trips to the Arctic Circle and close to five years of research on the narwhal, Martin T. Nweeia, a clinical instructor at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, has discovered new information about the sensory abilities of the whale’s tusk. Nweeia discovered that the narwhal tusk is equipped with 10 million sensory endings that have the capability to detect changes in water temperature, pressure, osmotic gradients, and motion. According to Nweeia’s website, www.narwhal.org, the tusk is actually a tooth, shaped like a spiraled rod, which projects out of the male?...
...HANS ISLAND Denmark and Canada exchanged words in March over this 1.3-square-kilometer scrap of Arctic wasteland between Canada's Ellesmere Island and Greenland. Both sides are playing down the dispute, but Hans could be the tip of the iceberg: Canada will launch operation Narwhal, its largest-ever war games in the Arctic, this August as part of a long-term plan to reassert its sovereignty in the north...
...unclear what he did for the next few years, but he eventually joined the Duracell company and married a childhood sweetheart, Monica Sheehan. McDermott summed up that experience in 1997 on a website for Narwhal veterans: "Well, I came back to the land of my youth and married a childhood friend. Lasted three and a half years before she split." His wife moved away to a Chicago suburb. In the meantime, the man who had met the strict weight limits to work on a sub ballooned...