Archaeologists from an international research team, led by academics at Lund University, Sweden, have uncovered Viking-era ...

A walrus spotted on rocks in Ireland's County Kerry is likely to be an adolescent that left the Arctic in search of new breeding grounds and food, according to an expert. The rare sighting was ...

Narwhals are identifiable by their long spiral tusks, which may assist in navigation and communication. Arctic cod have ...

The walrus, one of the iconic Arctic species, was hunted for three centuries around Svalbard almost to extinction. In 1952, when it was made a protected species, there were only about 100 left.

The five-year project, in cooperation with scientists from around the Arctic, aims to deliver a whole population census of the Atlantic and Laptev Walrus using satellite imagery and explore what ...

The study is now published in Science Advances. In Medieval Europe, there was an enormous demand for elite products, among ...

Learn about the effects of a changing climate on the Arctic ecosystem and four of its well-known mammals: the polar bear, the walrus, the Arctic fox and the beluga whale. The term “climate ...

The Crusades prevented elephant ivory trade via the Middle East so walruses from the Arctic became important sources of the commodity. However, the precise sources of the traded walrus ivory and ...

Stories have surfaced of animals such as polar bears fighting off new diseases, and sometimes losing that fight.