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Quugaarpiit (singular Quugaarpak), also known as kogukhpuk or kiluguwuk, are animals from Yupik folklore. They are giant creatures similar to mammoths that burrow under the earth, and sometimes cause cave-ins from their tunneling. They cannot breathe air or else they will die, so they are only ever found underground or swimming underwater. Quugaarpiit are said to be creatures transformed from muskrats, and so they look similar to one. They have two long ivory tusks like a walrus,[1] and both...