Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. When it ...

Once said to possess magic powers, narwhal tusks were sold as unicorn horns centuries ago, and still today some mystique surrounds the overgrown tooth protruding from this unique whale's head.

Researchers have long debated what the 10-foot-long tooth that erupts from a narwhal’s head is actually for. Perhaps it has something to do with sexual selection, and males with longer horns attract ...

Narwhals have been having a moment in the last few years. These elusive “unicorns of the sea" have graduated from unappreciated Arctic animals to become meme bait, plushies and the subject of a really ...

Every year, a new growth layer is added to the narwhal's spiralled tusk. The individual layers act as an archive of data that reveals what and where the animal has eaten, providing a glimpse of how ...

For one of the most mysterious animals in the oceans, size really does matter. That's the upshot of a new study that finally answers why, unlike every other whale alive today, narwhals evolved their ...

Just like a tree trunk, the tusk of the narwhal acquires a new growth ring every year. Analyses of those rings have now revealed some interesting facts about the animals' diet, and about changes in ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NORMAN, Okla. (KFOR) – A fabled sea creature ...

The Bell Museum premiered a new exhibit, “Narwhal: Revealing an Arctic Legend,” in October in addition to celebrating its 150-year anniversary. The Bell Museum was founded by the Minnesota Legislature ...

One quiet evening not too long ago, Kristin Laidre was standing on a rocky beach, peering out of a fjord dotted with icebergs. The water looked strangely still under the nighttime sun. "It's great ...

Can you imagine capturing a narwhal? That’s one way scientists in the Arctic study the mysterious and hard-to-find whales. Just off a rocky beach, they set out a whale-size net marked with a bright ...

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Narwhals are some of the most elusive creatures in the ocean, spending most of their lives in deep water far from shore. But research being presented at the 2018 Ocean Sciences ...