Jocko belly-flopped onto the artificial ice floe in the middle of his Vallejo pool and rocked back and forth - a blubbery portrait of walrus bliss. His counterparts in the wild should have it so good.

This secret Alaska island is home to one of the world’s biggest walrus gatherings, showcasing an unforgettable Arctic ...

Most reports — with the exception of a few ultra-conservative sites — decisively linked the record numbers of on-shore walrus to record low sea ice offshore, and overnight, the walrus became an ...

Last week the media was awash with pictures of a ‘ mass haul-out‘ of around 35,000 walrus on the shores of Alaska. The sight of so many walrus lounging on land rather than sea-ice led many to herald ...

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA—Pacific walrus that can’t find sea ice for resting in Arctic waters are coming ashore in record numbers on a beach in northwest Alaska. An estimated 35,000 walrus were photographed ...

ANCHORAGE, ALASKA — Alaskan researchers are joining their Russian counterparts in the most exhaustive effort yet to answer a simple question: How many walrus are there? Without a good answer, it is ...

Follow a paleontologist on an Arctic adventure to uncover the hidden lives of walrus and the threats they face as climate change shrinks the sea ice. Nature is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...