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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 ...

Tuffy, the fearsome elephant mascot of sports teams at Cal State Fullerton, may have a heavy rival. Meet Titanotaria orangensis. OK, it may be a mouthful, but that’s what CSUF paleontologists dubbed ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Did you know that walrus have feet? I was shocked when I found this video that marine biologist and animal behavior expert KP ...

This piece was originally published in Northern Journal, a newsletter published by Nathaniel Herz. As a rule, I almost never bite on PR pitches; they tend to be almost offensively irrelevant to ...

Robert Qaummaluk Lisbourne remembers how, when he was growing up, walruses started to beach near Point Lay in large numbers. It was always an exciting time for local hunters. But he said a stream of ...

Follow a paleontologist on an Arctic adventure to uncover the hidden lives of walrus and the threats they face as climate change shrinks the sea ice. Nature is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...

There are well over 150,000 walruses living in the U.S. waters of the Chukchi Sea. But how do we actually know that? It's not an exact figure, and for the most part, researchers still have to count ...

In celebration of World Walrus Day, National Museum of Natural History director Kirk Johnson talks about his new documentary on the saber-toothed seals Jack Tamisiea As a paleobotanist, Kirk Johnson’s ...

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