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<div> {| class="toccolours" style="float:right; margin:0 0 0.5em 1em; width:25em;" |- |colspan=2 style="text-align:center;" | [[File:299px-Southern_Narwhal_by_Pristichampsus.jpg|thumb|299px|Artist's drawing of creature.]] |- !colspan=2 style="text-align:center; font-size: larger; background-color:{{{bgcolor}}}; color:{{{fgcolor}}};" | Southern Narwhal |- |'''Sightings''' || 1615-1892 |- |'''Average Lenght''' || 3 m |- |'''Average Weight''' || Unknown |- |'''Diet''' || Carnivorous (presumed) |- |'''Sapience Level''' || Non-Sapient (presumed) |- |'''Seen in''' || South Atlantic Ocean |- |'''Habitat''' || Sea |} </div> The''' Southern Narwhal''' or '''Sea Unicorn''' is a tusked ceatacean, reported from South Atlantic Ocean and Antarctic waters. Whale with a long tusk. ==Sightings== ===1615=== On October 5, 1615, Dutch explorer Willem Corneliszoon Schouten noted in his journal that one of his ships was rammed by a sea monster in the mid-Atlantic. The crew later found a foot-long horn stuck in the prow. ===1620=== On February 3, 1620, Augustin de Beaulieu observed a dark-blue, porpoiselike animal with a high fin and a tusk about 1β2 feet long in the South Atlantic Ocean off South Africa. ===1892=== On December 17, 1892, the crew of the ship Balaena spotted a narwhal-like animal in the Bransfield Strait off the Antarctic Peninsula. ==Possible explanations== * A Swordfish (Xiphias gladius) sword looks like a tusk or horn, but the swordfish is tropical. * An unrecognized variety of Narwhal (Monodon monoceros) that lives in Antarctic waters. Narwhals are known only from above the Arctic Circle. * A surviving Double-tusked whale (Odobenocetops peruvianus), known from a single skull found in 1993 in southern Peru that dates from the Pliocene, 5 million years ago. Its tusks, however, pointed downward, walrus-fashion. [[Category:CryptoWiki]] [[Category:Cryptozoology]] [[Category:Cryptids]] [[Category:Mammals]] [[Category:Cetaceans]] [[Category:Sea Cryptids]] [[Category:Aquatic Cryptids]] [[Category:Tusked Sea Monsters]] [[Category:Antarctica/Arctic]]
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