This narwhal has two tusks

[@amosbackstrom5366]

I feel sorry for any narwhal that breaks a tooth, must be brutal

[@somenygaard]

Probably tickles.

[@Cheesepuff8]

@@somenygaardas someone who broke a tooth and the nerve bit was exposed for a day, it does not tickle, it feels horrible, just having my mouth open with air passing round it felt too much

[@ZC.Andrew]

@@Cheesepuff8 I had the same thing happen, and it was super brutal. After a few hours though, it went numb. The nerve died.

[@Rickiye]

Real life sea unicorn 🦄

[@Nerf_Jeez]

Oh no! Do you think unicorns also just have strange protruding tusks?

[@SciMinute]

There's a whale with horns, but no horses with horns..😢

[@Thejackofirishdiamon]

Tusks. There are whales with tusks but no horses with tusks. Now the task falls to you to create the myth of the tusked horse.

[@emila6]

Horses have one

[@iaw7406]

ok but rhinos exist

[@jamesjohno1180]

How do you know? Just because we haven’t seen them yet doesn’t make it not so🤗 It’s a government conspiracy to make us THINK no horses have horns so we don’t go on a mythical adventure together to find them and not pay taxes🙄

[@AngiraBlu96]

@@iaw7406In the various unicorn-like creatures’ case, the massive Elasmotherium.

[@NewMessage]

Even whales know the pain of tolerating that one guy who's just 'too extra'.

[@TheAndroid3k]

Narwhals, Narwhals, swimming in the ocean....

[@MarySanchez-qk3hp]

But what I’ve always wondered is, what is the evolutionary purpose of the tooth? Defense? Breaking through ice in the arctic? A sign of being in good breeding condition?

[@crappozappo]

They can sense temperature and stuff with their tusk. It's apparently sensitive. In my opinion, sensory information source + a signal of good breeding condition is the reason the tusk condition evolved in narwhals.

[@somenygaard]

Evolutionary theory will eventually become a totally untenable once somewhat plausible based our very limited knowledge of the cell, genetics and cellular replication processes. The more we learn the more obvious it becomes that DNA and and all of its components is the most complex language and dense data storage known to man the information to create every living creature is unique and contains everything needed to program all the different cellular structures that are basically tiny micro machines any who actually takes the time to understand the whole replication process with built in error correction abilities we are still learning about. Obviously a language like this able to create all life on earth can’t be the products of a non intelligent random occurrence. Can’t imagine seeing “love you mom” written in the sand and anyone not saying obviously an intelligent being created this 3 word 10 letter phrase. But we see dna and it’s infinitely more complex and data dense extremely precise information and think… ahh definitely just random chance. People don’t like the idea of being a creation of an infinite intelligent being. It means we are obviously subject to a being capable of creating the universe and everything in it. The entire human existence becomes a totally pointless and meaningless existence if we are just moist robots and chemical reactions rule our existence you can’t trust your own mind right and wrong can’t be trusted it it comes from the individual or some ever changing socially acceptable norm.

[@yoeyyoey8937]

@@somenygaardyou’re right

[@yoeyyoey8937]

There’s a lot of theories and they might all be right. The main one that makes sense to me is that they sense water salinity, which indicates whether water will freeze and form and ice sheet, which ofc causes a problem for them because they then can’t surface to breathe air. The tusk probably grew bigger in males because it might have been involved sexual selection. Some females have big tusks (like 1%) but that could just be an accident, kinda like males who experience gynecomastia or intersex individuals in humans.

[@ethanstarkey8058]

​@@somenygaard I know you think you sound intelligent, but "It's complex" isn't evidence of a creator but simply the existence of natural complexity itself until you can actually prove it was god. The fact is that DNA is incredibly inefficient and riddled with flaws. It often mutates, deletes itself and results in system failures such as cancer or genetic diseases. If a supreme all-knowing all-powerful being designed it, it wouldn't be so flawed in such an obvious way. What you're looking at isn't writing, it is simply chemical compounds that have function within an organism. We also know that genetics change over time due to natural pressures in a perfectly functional way, showing it is capable of being influenced by natural cause, unlike technology which requires human usage. You have a narrow view of the universe and the only reason you think complexity requires a creator is because you're solely looking at things through a human-centric lens, anthropomorphizing things that don't care what us humans think is complex or not. You say "Complexity can't form naturally" but when I point out there are other complex things that form naturally you say "They were also created by god," and finally when I ask how we know they were created by god, you go back to "Because complexity can't form naturally." It's circular logic with no actual basis.

[@Virtuous_Rogue]

Hopefully narwhals don't have sensitive teeth.

[@GillBearToe]

I need to use whatever they're using for my teeth if they can swim in cold water.

[@yoeyyoey8937]

They do actually. They don’t have enamel so they can sense the ocean temp and salinity and maybe other stuff

[@1TakoyakiStore]

Years ago I remember looking up narwhals on one of my many wikipedia binges and there being a photograph of the only known case of a female narwhal with 2 tusks. So that apparently does happen.

[@realscience]

Wow what a rare thing

[@commonsense571]

Wowww I’ve never actually seen one! Thank you💙💙💙

[@karlepaul6632]

Damn, if a tusk gets cracked that thing must hurt like hell 😳

[@rambi1072]

The narwhal with two tusks probably thinks it's better than all of the other narwhals

[@SoulDelSol]

It is better. Twice as good 👍

[@dracodracarys2339]

either that or he gets the Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer treatment from all the "normal" one tusked narwhals

[@corujariousa]

That's the Narwhal with Wolverine genes. :-)

[@razemander]

That's a Nad snaggletooth

[@janakasanjaya6926]

Thank you

[@AngiraBlu96]

I found this out on a Wild Kratts episode, over a decade ago. Apparently, 2-tusks occur *1 in every 500* births. For reference as to how rare that is, white bison are *1 in every 10 million* (*which I learned from Longmire*).

[@Formerlywarmer]

Wow. Cool stuff

[@supercheetah778]

Do they use it for anything or is it just for show like a male peacock's feathers?

[@MrKKmusic]

It’s actually a tuning fork

[@bosesebi6685]

the purpose of that is breaking ice..

[@yoeyyoey8937]

It’s not

[@bosesebi6685]

@@yoeyyoey8937 Has to be. They venture into ice covered area regularly.

[@jamesdemo18]

Imagine having the feeling of ice cold 🥶 on that tooth

[@f.n.schlub]

Do double tusks spiral in opposite directions ?

[@yoeyyoey8937]

Yeah

[@apatheticAstronaut]

Me every time i play spore

[@Cheesepuff8]

Don’t all tusks have very similar anatomy to teeth?

[@SoulDelSol]

Yes

[@pietpetrus2343]

Gotta hurt when t breaks

[@LongDongJohnson0705]

Narwhal tusk and the purpose of them are an under rated nature mystery

[@SocietyPhantom]

Unicorns of the sea

[@SappyWasHere]

Do they exist? 😮

[@beanburrito8903]

Lol a unicorn 🦄 whale 🐳🐳

[@plinyelder8156]

Summary: most males narwhals have tusks, females rarely do.

[@beanburrito8903]

How do they hunt?

[@yoeyyoey8937]

Sometimes they hit stuff with the tusk but it’s not necessary for their hunting behavior

[@artyman10]

Forks are easier to eat with lol

[@JungleJargon]

That’s a double exposure.

[@TheAdvance135]

I bet they get instant WiFi. (I'm joking btw.)

[@OwOKrieger]

Bye buddy hope you find your dad

[@cjackfly]

Wen we bred wif horses... Yeah, we here. 🦄

[@regorflora7915]

Ice pick

[@serajacob8278]

😮

[@Lamb666]

They invented the shishkabab

[@farhanazmi5278]

Orcas are dolphins and not whales

[@yoeyyoey8937]

Dolphins are whales

[@matthewpepper902]

Orcas are cetations

[@link8689]

orca part of dolphin family

[@CordeliaWagner1999]

Orcas aren't whales

[@sagsfv3122]

You never heard of, Killer Whales?

[@anullhandle]

​@@sagsfv3122Orca are a type of dolphin. Dolphins are a type of toothed whale. So they are by definition both. While dolphin is more specific, they sometimes get called whale because of their size.

[@beardrn]

اللھم صل علی محمد و علی آل محمد کما صلیت علٰی اِبراھیم وعلی آل اِبراھیم اِنک حمید مجید اللھم بارک علی محمد و علی آل محمد کما بارکت علٰی اِبراھیم وعلی آل اِبراھیم اِنک حمید مجید

[@davenutt8914]

May satan bless and keep your family. May he warm your hearth and eat your soul. 😊❤

[@427max]

Orcas are not whales

[@tenapalmer7182]

Orcas are a species of dolphin not whale

[@DieselDoesScience]

The narrator never said that, just that narwhals are related to orcas

[@yoeyyoey8937]

Dolphins are whales tho

[@DieselDoesScience]

@@yoeyyoey8937 They arent. They are both cetaceans but dolphins and whales are different.

[@yoeyyoey8937]

@@DieselDoesScience if sperm whales and the rest of the toothed whales are “whales”, then dolphins are whales

[@DieselDoesScience]

@@yoeyyoey8937 Search up "are dolphins whales"