On one occasion, police blocked off a bathing area after the walrus chased a woman into the water, local media say. Last week, Norway's fisheries ministry issued a photograph of a large group of ...

The chess pieces consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory and whales' teeth in ... They were probably made in Norway late 12th and early 13th centuries and where the chessmen were buried ...

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 ...