Sculpture and carving on bone and walrus tusk are the most highly developed forms of folk art among the Chukchi. |
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She gingerly brought her fingertips to the place on her side where the boar's tusk had gouged her. |
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They sell turkey jerky, bits of woolly mammoth tusk, shot glasses, and salty snacks. |
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Science shed little light on the narwhal tusk, however, and its purpose remained elusive. |
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Anyway, at the safari park in Dallas I got to scrape some rhino tusk and feed a giraffe. |
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In bivalves, chitons, tusk shells and some snails, sperm and eggs are released into the water and fertilisation is external. |
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In their weaning study, Fisher and his colleagues analyzed a juvenile woolly mammoth tusk from Wrangel Island in northern Siberia. |
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There are approximately 900 species of Scaphopoda, commonly called tusk shells. |
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For centuries observers have been fascinated and mystified by the majestic spiral tusk grown by the small Arctic whale known as the narwhal. |
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Scaphopods are burrowing animals that are also called tusk or tooth shells. |
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The tusk or tooth shells, as they are more commonly known, have the simplest shell structure and anatomy of all the molluscs. |
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Furthermore, unlike the curved teeth of elephants and warthogs, the narwhal tooth is nature's only straight tusk. |
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The tusk of whale or narwhal is spirally curved, and can measure up to 2.5 m in length. |
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Today all these figures are carved in wood, but materials such as bone, tusk, soapstone and reindeer antler are not commonly used. |
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The artifacts include hundreds of stone tools and flakes, as well as spear foreshafts made of rhinoceros horn and mammoth tusk. |
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Tiny was a male bull elephant with one tusk shorter than the other. |
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Rather than being carved in elephant ivory, they have been made from a walrus tusk, a material commonly used in northern Europe for such objects at this time. |
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This tusk may be associated with the left dentary of the old animal. |
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The freewheeling story involves a jawbreaker version of the dessert, a broken tusk and a tooth that can write. |
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The log rafters jut out past the roofline like a bowsprit or a narwhal's tusk. |
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The shaft of the ceremonial mace is the whorled tusk of a narwhal, a small Arctic whale. |
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The tusk as a symbol of virility fits with observations by Inuit, who hunt narwhal for food. |
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In the case of ivories there is also a minimum weight per tusk, the aim being to discourage the killing of young elephants. |
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There are a surprising number of researchers working on various tusk theories. |
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Early research was hampered by the widespread myth that the tusk came from the head of a unicorn. |
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A smaller type of whale with a smaller tusk is thought to come from Greenland. |
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The whole globe into which this earth is being moulded is poised upon the tip of your tusk and is so conceived by you. |
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The hunting horn or bugle has been carved from an ivory tusk and is nearly entirely covered in decorative work. |
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The decoration on this tusk is called scrimshaw. It is made by carving a design and then rubbing ink or paint into the grooves. |
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Tritylodontids primitively possess three teeth in each premaxilla, with the second tooth exhibiting considerable expansion and forming a prominent tusk. |
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The team has unearthed stone tools, animal bones showing signs of butchering and cooking, and spear shafts made from woolly rhinoceros horn and mammoth tusk. |
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Johnny Depp has a pretty sizeable role in tusk as the Montreal private eye Guy LaPointe. |
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The film aims to raise awareness and funds for tusk Trust, a UK-based conservation charity, of which Prince William is patron. |
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The heraldic antelope has the body of a stag and the tail of a lion, with serrated horns, and a small tusk at the end of its snout. |
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The tusk is actually a modified tooth and it is only present in males. |
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There is also misreporting by species involving catches of saithe, cod, hake, megrim and monkfish being recorded mainly as ling, greater forkbeard, tusk and dogfish. |
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The piece is carved from a cylinder of elephant tusk. |
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Tooth and tusk ivory can be carved into a vast variety of shapes and objects. |
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It turns out the tusk is a sensory organ of exceptional sensitivity. |
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At over 2.5 m in length, the tusk of the male narwhal is one the most impressive instruments of male-male competition among mammals. |
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A decorative object, this carved walrus tusk has on one side an image of the traditional seal hunt among the Inuit people, and on the other side, native animals of the Arctic. |
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The majority of the amendments made by the committee seek to exempt ling and tusk from the scope of the regulation, although they would still be covered by quotas. |
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Refers to the combined by-catch of cod, catfish, skate, ling and tusk. |
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Another carving took the form of a metapodium of a hare or arctic fox made of mammoth tusk. |
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Discriminating Proboscidean taxa using features of the Schreger pattern in tusk dentin. |
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Whenever he faces a vexing story problem, he pulls abstractedly at his forelock, twisting it into a kind of tusk that, if he lowered his head and charged, would deal the problem a mortal blow. |
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In medieval and Renaissance times, the tusk of the narwhal was sometimes sold as unicorn horn. |
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The collection consists of barkcloth garments and textiles, a boar's tusk bracelet, nose flute, club, basket, girdle and colourful bird feather cloak and helmet from Hawaii. |
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