Sawfish (Pristis pristis) sea unicorn. From a 1620 Edition of Gesner Icones Animalium. An additional print to the earlier editions,after a print by Surgeon Ambrose Pare,in 1582. Pare described the sea unicorn "with a horn on his forehead like a saw,three feet long and a half,and four inches wide,with its two peaks very acute." Earlier Gesner volumes just represent the saw | |
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