The young male - who has been named Magnus - was first seen in Orkney and has since been making a splash in the north-east of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wildlife biologist Dr. Devin Johnson of the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) Marine Mammals Management Walrus Program isn’t ...

Thousands of walruses gathered together here in the Arctic Circle - an area where their habitat is under threat from shrinking ice. A meet-up like this is called a 'haulout' - where vast numbers of ...

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 ...

How hard is it to find two-ton mammals that lay on beaches in large colonies? you may wonder. The British Antarctic Survey’s Hannah Cubaynes—whose official job title is Wildlife from Space Research ...

There are no walruses in Iceland, but, at one time, there were hundreds. The timing of the walruses' disappearance suggests that the population's loss may be one of the earliest known examples of ...

WASHINGTON — Some polar bears and their cubs already in danger of extinction could be legally killed by private oil-drilling ...

A baby walrus was found lost and alone along the North Slope of Alaska with little hope for survival. Now, in a rare and "exceptional" rescue attempt, he's being raised and nursed — with 24/7 cuddles.