Walruses are scattered around Canada, Greenland, and Russia in the Atlantic and near Alaska and Russia's Siberian coast in the Pacific. They live on coastlines, ice floes, and shallow waters along ...
And for a walrus to hit one of us can be lethal.” Indeed, their ivory tusks can be nearly two feet long. Hooked into ice like an ax, they help a walrus clamber from the sea. They also jab rivals ...
Our goal was to film walrus, we wanted to capture them on ice floes and had a specially built “megadome” that would allow David to capture imagery of the walrus on ice from above and below ...
Scientists have reported that trampling by other walruses in a stampede likely caused the deaths of 131 walruses found on a beach in Alaska’s North Slope in August. Attributing a reduction in ...
Sea-ice extent reached a stark new record in February, reaching its all-time minimum extent for the month, with the Arctic ...
With tusks like an elephant and the body of an overgrown seal, the Pacific walrus is one blubbery beast. This ungainly animal, often gathered en masse on rocky beaches or seen riding ice floes, dives ...
The Center for Biological Diversity first submitted a petition to list the Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus) as threatened or endangered in 2008, more than a decade ago. Today’s letter was signed by ...
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 ...