Today is Unicorn Day—or what celebrants call "the sparkliest holiday of the year." To honor the mythical horned beast, we bring you the next best thing: a pod of narwhals brandishing their tusks in the Arctic Ocean. Narwhals develop only two teeth, but—in males especially—the left canine can grow into a 9-foot-long spiraled tusk. The tusk juts right through the narwhal"s upper lip, lending the whale the nickname "unicorn of the sea."
Hooray, hooray, it s Unicorn Day!
Today in History
More Desktop Wallpapers:
-
Birds and bees, and why they re so important
-
Diamond Beach, Iceland
-
Twas a night just like tonight
-
A hint of spring
-
Sunny day, sweepin the clouds away
-
Wildcat in a winter wonderland
-
It s not always sunny in Abu Simbel…
-
Our Lady of the Rocks
-
World Lizard Day
-
Lantern Festival
-
Christmas Bird Count
-
Preveli Gorge
-
This park is Superkilen
-
Gone ‘lightseeing’ in Berlin
-
Breckenridge, Colorado
-
Great Fountain Geyser, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
-
National Llama Day
-
Asteroid Day
-
King of the dinosaurs
-
World Environment Day
-
Floating temples in the Land of Smiles
-
Celebrating sea otters
-
Antarctica Day
-
Toledo, Spain
-
Class, please take out a No. 2 pencil…
-
Moselle River loop near Kröv, Germany
-
Hey, don t you guys have somewhere to be?
-
The smoke before the bonfire
-
A bull, some flowers, and a stratovolcano
-
Wedded Rocks, Japan