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!
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Seven Magic Mountains art installation, Jean Dry Lake, Nevada
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Oktoberfest begins
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Roman theater of Cartagena, Spain
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The Twin Cities celebrate Pride
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Juniper Springs, Florida
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A narrow passage
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Rooftops in the walled city of Urbino, Italy
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Storseisundet Bridge, Norway
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A castle fit for a count
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Bridge of Hillsborough County
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The Feathers at Frenchman Coulee near Vantage, Washington
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Sleep tight, little hedgehog
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