Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thousands of walruses gathered together here in the Arctic Circle - an area where their habitat is under threat from shrinking ice ...

There are no walruses in Iceland, but, at one time, there were hundreds. The timing of the walruses' disappearance suggests that the population's loss may be one of the earliest known examples of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildlife biologist Dr. Devin Johnson of the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Marine Mammals Management Walrus Program isn’t ...

What do you get the walrus that has everything? Don’t waste your money on Furbys and Tickle Me Elmos. According to a new study, what walruses really want to play with are bird carcasses. It may ...

In celebration of World Walrus Day, National Museum of Natural History director Kirk Johnson talks about his new documentary on the saber-toothed seals Jack Tamisiea As a paleobotanist, Kirk Johnson’s ...

Given a choice between giving birth on land or sea ice, Pacific walrus mothers most often choose ice. Likewise, they prefer sea ice for molting, mating, nursing and resting between dives for food.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Residents of a village of 110 on the Alaska Peninsula see the occasional walrus in Bering Sea waters, but when 200 packed a beach just outside the community, it took them by ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: The most devastating scene on Netflix isn’t in one of their searing dramas or Oscar-winning films. It’s Our Planet‘s look at the walruses of Northern Russia. Our Planet, ...

Sophie Lanfear, who produced the episode of Our Planet that featured the mass walrus death, hopes the scene moves viewers to take the effects of climate change seriously Kelli Bender is the Pets ...