Freya, a walrus that attracted crowds while basking in the Oslo fiord, was euthanised on Sunday, with Norwegian officials saying it was the only option but experts slamming an “infinitely sad ...
This story discusses suicide. If you or someone you know is having thoughts of suicide, please contact the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988 or 1-800-273-TALK (8255). A 28-year-old Dutch woman is ...
The bronze life-size statue of Walrus Freya is called For Our Sins Norway's capital Oslo has unveiled a statue of a walrus who was a popular attraction but was then put down because of public ...
A 600 kg (1,300 pound) walrus in northern Europe has taken up summer sunbathing on boats and some of them – well, are just too small for the big gal. Nicknamed Freya, the young female walrus is ...
A nurse couldn't stand the thought of a puppy already having an ending date to his life, which is why she stepped up to save him before he was euthanized. Defeated and hurt, the poor 12-week-old ...
My first anti-euthanasia article, published in Newsweek in 1993, warned that one day euthanasia would be coupled with organ harvesting “as a plum to society.” Over the years, I was chided as ...
Under local law, it is illegal to cause unnecessary disturbance to wildlife in Svalberg, which lies halfway between the northern coast of mainland Norway and the North Pole. The Svalbard ...
Viking settlers who arrived in Iceland around A.D. 870 may have hunted the island’s native walrus population to extinction in less than 500 years. Radiocarbon dating of walrus skeletal remains ...
This story appears in the December 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. On ice floes and rocky beaches in the far North Atlantic, cinnamon brown blobs pile up in living heaps. Some weigh ...
At Alfred University, our Honors Program is unique: not only do we offer obscure courses, but we also feature a walrus as both our mascot and our seal. A seal in Latin is sigillum, which is one of the ...
A tourist has been fined NOK 12,500 Norwegian Kroner (£900) for approaching a walrus in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard. The authorities said the man went out onto an ice floe on Wednesday ...