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 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.

Canadian anthropologist and ethnobotanist Wade Davis, a National Geographic explorer-in-residence ... the bearded seals and walrus. They hunt by day, sing by night, even as they wonder if the ...