Two experts—and two walruses—demonstrate. (Hint: Throw your whole body into it.) Watch our audio slide show—or hear walrus sounds now: ...
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.
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.
A hunting ban has fostered the return of a nearly extinct species Photographs by Florian Ledoux Text by Jennie Rothenberg Gritz Male Svalbard walruses cluster by the shore. Each weighs an average ...
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 ...
TASS, October 26. About 5,000 walruses organized a rookery on the Kara Sea’s coast in the Yamalo-Nenets Region - it is the biggest coastal rookery known to scientists, the region’s Governor ...
MIZUNAMI, Gifu Prefecture--Fossils uncovered here are thought to offer a key to resolving how seals and walruses went their separate ways in evolution. A lower jaw fossil of a pinniped was found ...
“We’ve known for decades that the sea ice walruses rely on is melting at an alarming rate. The situation is only getting worse as the climate continues to warm, and we can’t let these iconic animals ...
Our Planet, our new documentary series narrated by David Attenborough, shows walruses as you've never seen them before - and the threats they face. On land, they’re hulking, belching, flatulent one ...
Senior research fellow at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology Vasily Spiridonov said it is important to watch Atlantic walruses closely as no concrete data on their numbers is available MOSCOW ...
Seals, Sea Lions & Walruses Pinnipedia Pinnipeds, colloquially known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals.