Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ivory was a major luxury commodity used to make a variety of products such as jewelry and tools across Europe during the medieval ...

Loading external pages may require significantly more data usage than loading CBC Lite story pages. A group of photographers joined a walrus hunt near Igloolik recently to help put together learning ...

The study is now published in Science Advances. In Medieval Europe, there was an enormous demand for elite products, among them—walrus ivory. With the Vikings playing a vital part in the ivory trade, ...

The mysterious disappearance of Greenland's Norse colonies sometime in the 15th century may have been down to the overexploitation of walrus populations for their tusks, according to a study of ...

In 985 A.D., Erik the Red arrived on the shores of Greenland after setting sail from Iceland with a fleet of 14 ships. Norse outposts blossomed on this new North Atlantic territory, where settlers ...

Calling the disappearance of medieval Norse colonies from Greenland ” a classic pattern of resource depletion,” researchers from the universities of Cambridge, Oslo, and Trondheim found that, for ...

In Medieval Europe, there was an enormous demand for elite products, among them - walrus ivory. With the Vikings playing a vital part in the ivory trade, this drove the Norse expansion into the north ...