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Bookmark or Share- Why a Tusk? The real-life unicorns of the sea and the tusks that make ...A tusk is actually part of a set teeth: one stays embedded in the upper jaw, while the other grows into the spiraled tusk, sometimes more than 8 feet (2.4 meters) long. Like human teeth, the tusk has many sensory nerve endings that can detect subtleties in temperature, pressure, and particle presence in the water.
- Harvard researchers show how tusks evolved — Harvard GazetteHarvard-led study defines and traces their evolution from the first animals to sport them. A wide array of animals have tusks, including elephants, walruses, warthogs, hippos, and even the much smaller hyrax, which look like guinea pigs and are about the size of domestic cats.
- Tusk movie review & film summary (2014) | Roger EbertTusk. Kevin Smith 's style of comedy is too unfocused to pull off a cinematic prank like "Tusk," a horror-comedy about a walrus-monster. Had Smith been more disciplined, the film's deliberately absurd plot twists might have been more alienating, and funny. But even a Kevin Smith apologist like myself will readily admit that "discipline" and ...
- Tusk (2014) - IMDbTusk: Directed by Kevin Smith. With Michael Parks, Justin Long, Genesis Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment. A brash and arrogant podcaster gets more than he bargained for when he travels to Canada to interview a mysterious recluse... who has a rather disturbing fondness for walruses.
- Tusk - WikipediaTusk. Tusks are elongated, continuously growing front teeth that protrude well beyond the mouth of certain mammal species. They are most commonly canine teeth, as with narwhals, chevrotains, musk deer, water deer, muntjac, pigs, peccaries, hippopotamuses and walruses, or, in the case of elephants, elongated incisors.
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