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SAVING THE PACIFIC WALRUS
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 ...
Center for Biological Diversity3y
Federal Appeals Court Reverses Failure to Protect Pacific Walrus
Pacific walruses, known for their massive size and ever-growing pair of tusks, depend on Arctic sea ice for their essential life functions. They need sea ice for courtship, giving birth, nursing their ...
TASS6mon
Russia’s Federal Customs Service finds tusks of rare walrus in passenger’s luggage
MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/. Domodedovo customs officers have found the tusks of an endangered walrus species in a passenger’s luggage, Russia’s Federal Customs Service reported. According to it ...
BBC3y
Wally the walrus: Arctic animal spotted for first time in Cornwall
"The likelihood of seeing one walrus down here is remote so the likelihood of seeing two is a lot less," he said. "The tusks were also the same size, it was amazing. "These past 12 hours have been ...
MercoPress2mon
Sunday was World Walrus Day, with some 25,000 along the Atlantic
From their unmistakable tusks to their characteristic bristles (the envy of many a ‘Movember’ moustache!), the walrus is one of the Arctic’s most iconic species, and today (Sunday 24 ...