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The walrus is a thick-skinned seal belonging to the Odobenidae family. Its most distinctive feature are its large, projecting tusks used for hauling onto ice and foraging. Found in Arctic regions, walruses are critically vulnerable due to declining sea ice habitats. They primarily support themselves...
The Pacific Walrus is a distinct subspecies of walrus inhabiting the North Pacific’s Arctic waters. It's recognized by its substantial size and unique reliance on sea ice for resting and foraging. These animals are primarily used for accessing shellfish beds beneath the ice. The species is vital to...
The Atlantic walrus (Odobenus rosmarus glacialis) is a distinct seal species found in the North Atlantic. It differs from the Pacific walrus through its smaller stature and paler skin. Primarily inhabiting coastal waters off northeastern Canada and Greenland, this subspecies faces challenges due to...
Gomphotaria pugnax was a unique seal species existing during the Miocene period in California. This odobenidae fossil is notable for its unusually large, downward-curving tusks—a feature rarely seen in seals. These dual-tusked animals likely used their tusks to forage along the seafloor. Gomphotaria...
Pontolis magnus is an extinct species of prehistoric walrus known for its large size. This marine mammal lived during the Late Miocene epoch, inhabiting the coastal waters of the North Pacific region. Paleontologists originally described the species from fossilized remains discovered in Oregon. It p...
Dusignathus seftoni is an extinct walrus relative known from Miocene marine deposits in California. Unlike living walruses, it possessed enlarged canine teeth in both the upper and lower jaws, producing the double-tusked appearance associated with dusignathine walruses. Its fossils are studied as ev...
Valenictus chulavistensis is an extinct species of walrus that lived during the Pliocene epoch, with fossils primarily discovered in the San Diego Formation of Southern California. It is uniquely specialized among pinnipeds for its complete lack of post-canine teeth in its lower jaw, possessing only...
Ontocetus emmonsi is an extinct walrus known from fossils found on both sides of the North Atlantic, including eastern North America and western Europe. It lived during the Pliocene and belonged to Odobenidae, the family that contains the living walrus. Its broad fossil distribution indicates that i...
A basal extinct walrus from the Middle Miocene epoch, notable for its primitive anatomy and fossils discovered in the Sharktooth Hill Bonebed.
An extinct species of true seal from the Late Miocene epoch whose well-preserved fossils were discovered on the coast of Hokkaido, Japan.
An extinct species of walrus from the Late Miocene epoch whose fossils were discovered on Cedros Island in Baja California, Mexico.
Pliopedia pacifica is an extinct seal recognized from Pliocene fossil deposits in California, originally described by the American paleontologist Remington Kellogg in 1922.
An extinct species of phocid true seal from the Tertiary period, known from fossil remains discovered in Miocene deposits of Maryland, USA.
