Researchers take a new look at old walrus-like fossils and reclassify them based on skull, teeth, and jaws, rather than tusks. Walruses are perhaps best recognized for their iconic tusks. But one ...

Walruses are 'right-flippered', according to research published this week in BMC Ecology. The first study of walrus feeding behaviour in the wild showed that the animals preferentially use ...

Although an extinct animal was from a different group of marine mammals, an examination of fossils showed it evolved a way of eating that was very similar to that of modern walruses. By Asher Elbein ...

Federal wildlife officials have declined the suggestion of a wildlife advocacy group to place experimental rafts off Alaska's northwest coast as a resting place for walrus. U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Thousands of walrus have appeared on Alaska’s northwest coast in what conservationists are calling a dramatic consequence of global warming melting the Arctic sea ice. Alaska’s ...

A group of walruses on a flat rock at Qayassiq. June 2022. (KDLG photo) Thirty miles off the coast of the village of Togiak in Southwest Alaska sits Round Island, known in Yugtun as Qayassiq.

Walrus mothers and calves depend on the moving sea ice to carry them over this rich source of food. But now, as the sea ice melts farther north, if they stay on their platforms, they'll be carried ...

Walruses are 'right-flippered', according to research published this week in BMC Ecology. The first study of walrus feeding behaviour in the wild showed that the animals preferentially use their right ...