This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine ... of a mastiff,” noted a 19th-century explorer. Walruses may seem familiar from Beatles lyrics and Lewis Carroll ...

The best known is probably the naked mole rat, whose hairless, tubular, wrinkled body makes it appear a bit like a tiny walrus—or perhaps a bratwurst with teeth. Naked mole rats are rodents ...

This story appears in the April 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... of whales feed in the waters off its coast. Atlantic walruses prosper on the rich clam beds along the shallow ...

This story appears in the May 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine ... a pair of carved walrus tusks, and eight miniature porcelain polar bears—an iconography of the Arctic and Antarctic.