Polar bears are indeed the largest predators in the world. But even the biggest polar bear can hardly do anything against a full-grown walrus using its normal hunting strategy. Is that why the hunters use rocks and ice chunks? Three researchers investigated this...
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 family had spotted the young walrus on Valentina Island in County Kerry, southwest Ireland, on March 14 and reported it. It stayed on land for a few hours before diving back into the water and disappearing. Image: Screenshot_RTE_news A few weeks ago we reported that...
Cape Tegetthoff is the landmark of Franz Josef Land. The island was discovered officially on August 30, 1873 as the first island of the archipelago by the Austro-Hungarian North Pole Expedition led by Julius Payer and Carl Weyprecht. (Image: Heiner Kubny) At the...
In search of food, a polar bear observes the walrus colony from a safe distance. (Foto: Rosamaria Kubny) Scientists have observed polar bears on the Taimyr Peninsula in recent years and have noticed changes in their usual behavior, said Pavel Kochkaryov, director of...
