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Title: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on December 13, 2005, 02:01:42 pm

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/13/science/13narw.html?8dpc

Ever since I was a kid, and first learned of the Narwhal, I've been fascinated by the creature. Their physical makeup never made any sense to me. A whale, with a unicorn horn?  Wtf?

Well, one more mystery has been solved. I feel better...First the giant squid, now the freaky magical whale. Can't wait for the next thing they help check off my list!

mrC

Title: Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
Post by: mr.Curmudgeon on December 13, 2005, 02:04:34 pm

"the tusk, it turns out, forms a sensory organ of exceptional size and sensitivity..."

I bet you the tusks would be longer if the Narwhal didn't live in such cold, arctic waters!

/In before you other perverts!
mrC

Title: Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
Post by: Stingray on December 13, 2005, 02:17:12 pm

My tusk is also of exceptional size and sensitivity.

-S

Title: Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on December 13, 2005, 02:26:52 pm

Knew someone would say it.

Title: Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
Post by: fredster on December 13, 2005, 02:30:25 pm

Well Duh, I knew that.

Title: Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on December 13, 2005, 02:37:02 pm

"He added that the nerve endings, in addition to other readings, undoubtedly produce tactile sensations when the tusk is rubbed or touched, and that these might be interpreted as pleasurable.

This tactile sense might explain why narwhals engage in what is known as "tusking," where two males gently rub tusks together"


Not with a 10' pole.

Title: Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
Post by: ChadTower on December 13, 2005, 02:42:37 pm

I refuse to heed a story that talks about someone named Kaiser Karl the Fifth as if that could happen.

Title: Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
Post by: Stingray on December 13, 2005, 02:49:53 pm

Quote from: Ed_McCarron on December 13, 2005, 02:26:52 pm

Knew someone would say it.

I'm just proud that I got to be the first. :-\

-S

Title: Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
Post by: ChadTower on December 13, 2005, 02:58:27 pm

I have reconsidered.  I bet Seph would be proud to call his willy Kaiser Karl the Fifth.

Title: Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
Post by: Ed_McCarron on December 13, 2005, 03:00:28 pm

Fifth of what?

1/5 of a foot = 2.4 inches...

Title: Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
Post by: Stingray on December 13, 2005, 03:01:43 pm

Quote from: Ed_McCarron on December 13, 2005, 03:00:28 pm

Fifth of what?

1/5 of a foot = 2.4 inches...

Sounds about right.

-S

Title: Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
Post by: ChadTower on December 13, 2005, 04:25:48 pm

Fifth of whiskey, which is what precedes Kaiser Karl coming out to play.

Title: Re: The mystery of the Narwhal Tusk has been solved!
Post by: duffjr on December 13, 2005, 06:42:51 pm

i can't read the article.  i was hoping for something about bigfoot or the loch ness monster surviving from the paleozoic.

i've waited my whole life for pinky and the brain:  human brain cells in mice (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051213/ap_on_sc/mice_human_brains;_ylt=Aoh_.Kn72zfsiMAxoKxQOIms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MzV0MTdmBHNlYwM3NTM-)

the article title is misleading.