Did you hear the one about the walrus that fell asleep on an iceberg in the Arctic and woke up in Ireland? While it might sound like the start of a bad joke, a walrus had a bit of the luck of the ...

An arctic walrus was spotted on an Irish island off the coast of Kerry on March 14 after it drifted into Irish waters from Greenland. Alan Houlihan and his five-year-old daughter Muireann spotted the ...

New research from the University of Copenhagen shows that the Vikings travelled more than 6,000 kilometres to the Arctic to hunt for walrus. DNA analyses reveal that walrus ivory from Greenland was ...

Norse populations in Greenland vanished in the 15th century, and the reason has been a mystery for centuries. However, a recent study of medieval artifacts from across Europe suggests it may have been ...

Life on Thin Ice” Wednesday, October 22 at 8:00 pm The walrus is one of the Arctic’s most enigmatic and social animals, ...

A dogged search for walrus ivory may have brought two unlikely cultures together — the Thule Inuits of the Arctic and the Norse of Greenland — hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus set sail, a ...

Locals on Ireland's southwest coast saw the walrus on some rocks. But how did it get there? A local marine biologist thinks the walrus floated in from Greenland after falling asleep on an iceberg.

Amid that calamity, so the story goes, Greenland’s Vikings—numbering 5,000 at their peak—never gave up their old ways. They failed to learn from the Inuit, who arrived in northern Greenland a century ...

Archaeologists had low expectations when excavations started at 35 Spaska Street in Kyiv in 2007. Two earlier archaeological surveys had been carried out here, with meagre results. But now a new ...

James Barrett, a professor of medieval and environmental archeology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology's NTNU University Museum with replicas of the Lewis Chessmen, which were made ...