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A medival unicorn?
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0539a943-1675-4838-8c6a-96b7d594b97a/E6C40EF2-1AF2-41E4-8EB1-7EECAF6B9BD7/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Narwhals_breach.jpg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Narwhals_breach.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Narwhals_breach.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/84C34DD9-C67A-40B7-A588-427E57074003" alt="Image:Narwhals breach.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Narwhal&oldid=187467864" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Narwhal&oldid=187467864" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Narwhal&oldid=187467864"><P>The most conspicuous characteristic of male narwhal is their single extraordinarily long <A title="Tusk" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tusk" linkindex="44">tusk</A>, an <A title="Incisor" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incisor" linkindex="45">incisor</A> that projects from the left side of the upper jaw and forms a left-handed <A title="Helix" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix" linkindex="46">helix</A>. The tusk can be up to three <A title="Metre" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metre" linkindex="47">metres</A> (nearly 10 <A title="Feet (unit of length)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feet_%28unit_of_length%29" linkindex="48">ft</A>) long (compared with a body length of 7–8 m [23–26 ft]) and weigh up to 10 <A title="Kilogram" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram" linkindex="49" set="yes">kilograms</A> (22 <A title="Pounds (mass)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pounds_%28mass%29" linkindex="50" set="yes">lbs</A>). About one in 500 males has two tusks, which occurs when the right tooth, normally small, also grows out. Although rare, a female narwhal may also produce a tusk. There is a single recorded case of a female with two tusks.<SUP class="reference" id="_ref-2"><A title="" href="#_note-2" linkindex="51">[3]</A></SUP></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Narwhal&oldid=187467864"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/43A48389-A002-4AC4-B113-0540DC7D142C" alt="A skull of a narwhal with double tusks. Having double tusks is a rare trait in narwhals. 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The submerged woman was wrapped around a <A title="Beluga whale" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beluga_whale" linkindex="99">beluga whale</A> on the other end of the harpoon, and that is how the narwhal was created.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Narwhal&oldid=187467864">Some <A title="Middle Ages" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Ages" linkindex="100" set="yes">medieval</A> Europeans believed narwhal tusks to be the horns from the legendary <A title="Unicorn" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicorn" linkindex="101" set="yes">unicorn</A>.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E6C40EF2-1AF2-41E4-8EB1-7EECAF6B9BD7/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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