Imagine a brutally tough, very hairy creature with sharp tusks that could scare even a cougar. It’s a social animal that travels single-file through thick desert brush in groups called squadrons.

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Choose your weapon: How animals got their tusks, horns, and antlers. Location and lifestyle seem to sway whether a species evolves mouth weapons, like tusks, or head weapons, like antlers and horns.

Fossil dental exams reveal how tusks first evolved and why they are unique only to mammals Date: October 27, 2021 Source: Harvard University, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology ...

Martin Nweeia, a narwhal expert and researcher at Harvard, isn’t quite convinced that the size of the animals’ tusks plays a role in sexual selection.

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In more than one instance, narwhals chased arctic char but did not, strangely, try to catch and eat it. The whales even slowed down when necessary to keep the fish just off the tip of their tusks.