Once hunted to near extinction, walruses in Greenland can only make themselves comfortable in the national park. Hunting the massive seals is still allowed in Greenland, nota bene as a quota hunt. (Photo: Dr Michael Wenger) In the Middle Ages, the Norsemen from...
Walrus ivory from the gallery in Anchorage. The owner was convicted of illegally trafficking walrus ivory and failing to report income to the IRS on August 11, 2021. (Photo: U.S. Attorney’s Office) The owner of an antique shop in Anchorage was sentenced Aug. 11...
Map of Eastern Siberia, Uelen is shown at the Northeast tip. Detail of an engraved walrus tusk, Uelen, 1998 L48cm by Natalja Gonom. At the most easterly point of Siberia, just across the Bering Strait from Alaska, lies the village of Uelen in the Chukotka Autonomous...
A walrus rostrum (upper jaw bone) with tusks used in the study to identify the origin of medieval ivory in Europe. Photo: Musée du Mans The mysterious disappearance of Greenland’s Norse colonies sometime in the 15th century may have been due to the depletion of...
