narwhal
Example Sentences
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What happened when all the new animals in the north killed off the arctic foxes and belugas and narwhals and polar bears that already lived there?
From Literature
Another explorer, Martin Nweeia, a dental surgeon, discovered that a narwhal’s tusk, whose purpose was a mystery to scientists, is actually a sensory rod that helps it measure salinity, temperature and water pressure.
In seven years on The Times’s National Desk, I wrote about everything from natural disasters to narwhals.
From New York Times
Menopause is known to exist in five species of toothed whale: short-finned pilot whales, false killer whales, killer whales, narwhals and beluga whales.
From Science Daily
They found females of five "menopausal" species - narwhals and beluga, short-finned pilot, false killer and killer whales - lived about four decades longer than other toothed whales.
From BBC
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