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Do polar bears wield ice blocks to kill walruses?

August 4, 2021

In the eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland, Inuit have told stories for centuries of polar bears using rocks and blocks of ice to bludgeon walruses to death. Naturalists discounted such tales as myths, but new …

Vanished walrus population linked to Viking trade

October 4, 2019

The disappearance of the walrus from the shores of Iceland has long been a scientific puzzle. Walruses existed on the island for thousands of years, then disappeared. Using DNA analyses and carbon dating of walrus …