At this moment, thousands of Pacific walrus are diving to the seafloor in the shallow Chukchi Sea north of Alaska, using their whiskers to sweep for clams, snails and worms. But if they want to rest ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While it’s easy to feel helpless in the face of climate change, there’s plenty we can do to heal the planet. The World Wildlife ...

A "killer walrus" thought to have terrorized the North Pacific 15 million years ago may not have been such a savvy slayer after all, researchers say. A new analysis of fossil evidence of the ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A walrus calf ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, a new online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. The air is calm this Arctic morning as ...

As scientists across many disciplines begin to piece together the ecological mysteries of the Arctic Ocean off of Alaska's shores, they're beginning to back up with research suspicions about how ...

While it’s easy to feel helpless in the face of climate change, there’s plenty we can do to heal the planet. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and British Antarctic Survey (BAS), for example, have a new ...