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 ...

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 ...

Fighting occurs between males who “joust” with their tusks. Mating takes place in the ... warming and the associated recession of arctic sea ice. The disappearance of sea ice is forcing walruses to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 arctic region is one of the coldest places on the planet where human survival in nearly impossible, however, there are a ...