Wildlife biologist Dr. Devin Johnson of the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Marine Mammals Management Walrus Program isn’t entirely pessimistic regarding the plight of these animals. He has fond ...

Hooked into ice like an ax, they help a walrus clamber from the sea. They also jab rivals and fend off predators. Punctured polar bears have been found floating dead in the ocean. The mustache is ...

Walrus moms have strong maternal instincts and are known to pick up calves with their flippers and hold them to their chest before escaping predators by diving into the water. Walruses love clams ...

But melting sea ice means these predators have a whole new feeding ground to hunt in. And they hunt walrus. On land, polar bears are also attracted to large haulouts - and the smell of carcasses. They ...

As the Chukchi Sea experiences longer periods without ice and the female and juvenile walruses spend more time resting on land, it makes them vulnerable to human and predator activity. As ...

It threatens the survival of species like walruses, which are uniquely dependent on the disappearing frozen environment. As we burn fossil fuels, trapping heat that melts polar ice, the roly poly ...