Both male and female walruses have tusks, although the males tend to have longer and straighter tusks than the females. The tusks of the walrus are actually their teeth! While the average walrus has ...

Walrus tusks will grow several feet during their lifetimes ... They Give Birth Every Two to Four Years Cows — female walruses — give birth every two to four years to a single calf after a gestation ...

A 600 kg (1,300 pound) walrus in northern Europe has taken up summer sunbathing on boats and some of them – well, are just too small for the big gal. Nicknamed Freya, the young female walrus is ...

They’d get curious. But they have to hit you with their tusks to figure out what you are. And for a walrus to hit one of us can be lethal.” Indeed, their ivory tusks can be nearly two feet long.

What really surprised us was that much of the walrus ivory exported back to Europe was originating in very remote hunting ...

Male and female narwhals only have two teeth which are both found in the upper jaw. The male's iconic, spiralling tusk is in fact a canine tooth, and it can grow up to three metres in length.

Walrus upper jaw bone with tusks (Musées du Mans) Scientists studied fragments of walrus skulls obtained from excavations of Viking villages in Europe and settlements in Greenland and Canada.

A man attempting to illegally export items made from elephant and walrus ivory has received a suspended prison sentence. Peter Maw, 65, of Duke Street, Cheltenham was charged in October 2019 ...

18. The theme park was selected as her new home because of the staff’s experience with walruses and because of its walrus herd, which will help with development and includes a female walrus that ...

By examining ancient walrus DNA, an international research team led by Lund University in Sweden have retraced the walrus ivory trade routes of the Viking Age. They found that Norse Vikings and Arctic ...