Over 37,000 citizen scientists have joined the Walrus From Space project, with the hopes of helping walruses. News & Politics; ... As airplanes or boats pass and predators like polar bears appear, ...

While walruses are often seen in huddles for various purposes, including protection from predators, warmth, and communication, they can get more than a little aggressive with each other.

Other than humans, the walrus only has two natural predators — orca whales in the water and polar bears on the ice. The calves are most vulnerable since adult walruses are capable of handling ...

Walruses have only two natural predators: the orca (or killer whale) and the polar bear. Both are more likely to hunt walrus calves than adults.

Jay says walruses depend on sea ice for breeding, feeding and nursing their young, and to avoid predators. "They use the ice to breed in the wintertime and then to give birth in the spring," he says.

A "killer walrus" thought to have terrorized the North Pacific 15 million years ago may not have been such a savvy slayer after all, ... Instead, they think it was a generalist predator, ...

There are roughly 225,000 walruses in the wild, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature. They generally live in ice-covered waters in Canada, Norway and Russia, and in Greenland and Alaska.

This walrus calf was estimated to be about 1 or 2 weeks old when she was found abandoned on a beach in northern Alaska. She is now recovering and gaining weight at the Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward.

Norway's popular attraction, Freya the walrus, was euthanized for safety reasons early Sunday, authorities in Norway said. The decision comes after the country's Directorate of Fisheries warned ...