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A baby walrus was found lost and alone along the North Slope of Alaska with little hope for survival. Now, in a rare and "exceptional" rescue attempt, he's being raised and nursed — with 24/7 ...
A team of paleontologists have uncovered a new species of extinct walrus that lived roughly 5.3 million years ago. Ontocetus posti bears some surprising similarities in feeding adaptations to the ...
WASHINGTON— Twelve scientists urged the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today to promptly protect the Pacific walrus under the Endangered Species Act. The Center for ...
Alaska Native people in Bristol Bay have harvested walrus at Qayassiq for thousands of years. But they weren’t always able to hunt there. Qayassiq’s walrus hunt, once banned, now teaches ...
Hugs are all this abandoned baby needs. An infant walrus found in Alaska is getting constant cuddles to keep him alive. The 200-pound walrus calf was rescued on Monday, miles from the ocean on ...
A more than 1,300-pound walrus in northern Europe has taken up summer sunbathing on boats and some of them – well, are just too small for the big gal. Nicknamed Freya, the young female walrus is ...
Walrus ivory artifacts and hunting routes strongly suggest the two societies interacted. Credit: igure: E.J.R.-P. and coauthors. Instead of just computer modeling or archeological inferences, Lund ...
Freya the walrus is pictured sitting on a boat in Frognerkilen in Oslo, Norway, on July 18. Authorities in Norway said on Sunday that they have euthanized the walrus that had drawn crowds of ...