University of Alaska Fairbanks student Tony Blade studied 15 tissue samples from five walruses that were harvested by Indigenous subsistence hunters in Gambell, Savoonga, and Wainwright. The first two ...

For the first time, tiny bits of plastic have been found in body tissue of Pacific walruses, lodged in the animals’ muscles, ...

With their iconic long tusks, blubbery bodies, and cute whiskered faces, walruses are not only impressive in looks but also in their behaviors and significance to the ecology of the planet. From their ...

The Ice Age walrus had a range that extended much farther than modern walruses, experts say. Bones have been found as far ...

A student-led project comparing satellite images of the Arctic has discovered that a small Russian island has recently ...

Walruses may seem familiar from Beatles lyrics and Lewis Carroll verses, but most of us will never see a herd in the wild. And few photographers have documented this dangerous, musical ...

Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries The fisheries ministry released a picture of people gathered very close to the walrus "Walruses are unpredictable in their behaviour," says Erik Born ...

Seals, Sea Lions & Walruses Pinnipedia Pinnipeds, colloquially known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals.

James Cook, a video creator with 294,700 followers on TikTok, was left utterly gobsmacked after discovering the ultra-rare ...

Unfortunately, global warming has dramatically altered arctic marine ecosystems, significantly reducing the sea ice Pacific walruses needs for resting, socialization, giving birth and nursing young.

As the planet heats up, the summer sea ice and all the superbly adapted life it supports—the bears, the seals, the walruses, the whales, the Arctic cod, the crustaceans, the ice algae—may well ...

She was one of a few newly acquired walruses at Marineland, one of the most recognisable aquatic zoos in Canada - thanks in part to catchy "everyone loves Marineland" commercials that once ...