A group of walruses on a flat rock at Qayassiq. June 2022. (KDLG photo) Thirty miles off the coast of the village of Togiak in Southwest Alaska sits Round Island, known in Yugtun as Qayassiq.

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 ...

Robert Qaummaluk Lisbourne remembers how, when he was growing up, walruses started to beach near Point Lay in large numbers. It was always an exciting time for local hunters. But he said a stream of ...

The mysterious disappearance of Greenland's Norse colonies sometime in the 15th century may have been down to the overexploitation of walrus populations for their tusks, according to a study of ...

In 985 A.D., Erik the Red arrived on the shores of Greenland after setting sail from Iceland with a fleet of 14 ships. Norse outposts blossomed on this new North Atlantic territory, where settlers ...

An international collaboration of scientists in Iceland, Denmark and the Netherlands has for the first time used ancient DNA analyses and C14-dating to demonstrate the past existence of a unique ...

Scientists have struggled to understand why, after hundreds of years, Vikings suddenly abandoned their Greenland colony. New research suggests their economic over-reliance on walrus tusks—a valuable ...

Calling the disappearance of medieval Norse colonies from Greenland ” a classic pattern of resource depletion,” researchers from the universities of Cambridge, Oslo, and Trondheim found that, for ...

KIPNUK, Alaska -- If Sgt. Burt Paul fails to hook in salmon or track big game, his family could struggle through the harsh Alaskan winter. Isolated in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Region, where soggy ...

Scientists have used ancient DNA analyses and C14-dating to demonstrate the past existence of a unique population of Icelandic walrus that went extinct shortly after Norse settlement some 1100 years ...