Additionally, walruses use these tusks to assist in hauling their bodies out of the water and onto ice or rocky shores. The ...

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 ...

Walrus tusks will grow several feet during their lifetimes. They use them to dig food on the seafloor, break through ice, and in social interactions with other walruses. The rate of growth can ...

Walruses huddle in blubbery bonhomie, almost overflowing the little ice-islands on which they float. They nudge and scratch, gnarled brown skin and elegant ivory tusks glistening in the Arctic sun.

captured graphic imagery of a mother walrus trying to force her way onto an ice floe already full of other mothers and pups. Fighting would break out as they rammed at each other with their tusks.

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 ...

From their unmistakable tusks to their characteristic ... times faster than the rest of the world, sea ice is dramatically shrinking, and walrus are gathering in larger and larger numbers (and ...

The initial design for a new sculpture, inspired by an engraved walrus tusk, has been revealed as the centrepiece to a redeveloped museum. Entitled Abeona, the suspended artwork will span three ...

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 ...

Rod Downie, Chief Polar Advisor for WWF-UK said, “Walrus are big, powerful animals, but they are also increasingly vulnerable to the implications of the climate crisis, as the sea ice is ...