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The narwhal’s “horn” is actually a tooth with about 10 million nerve endings—a loooong, helix-spiraled tooth that pokes through the upper left “lip” into the chilly arctic ocean. It’s one of only two teeth they’ll ever get in their lifetimes. All males have this long-in-the-tooth situation, but about 15 percent of female narwhals also have one,
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
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