This 2014 photo provided by NOAA during the Aerial Survey of Arctic Marine Mammals project shows the walrus haul out at Point Lay, Alaska. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has obtained a ...

If something startles the herd, young walruses can be trampled and killed by their much-bigger mothers. An aerial survey spotted as many as 4,000 of the animals onshore near Point Lay on Sept. 14.

Two pilots have been fined $3,000 apiece for flying airplanes low over walruses on shore near Point Lay, Alaska, two years ago. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service spokeswoman Andrea Medeiros says ...

AP Some 35,000 walruses gather on shore near Point Lay, Alaska. Pacific walruses looking for places to rest in the absence of sea ice are coming to shore in record numbers on Alaska's northwest ...

In this aerial photo taken on Sept. 27, 2014, and provided by NOAA, some 35,000 walrus gather on shore near Point Lay, Alaska. AP Photo/NOAA, Corey Accardo ...

We didn’t have to be told twice. An aerial photo of Point Lay, Alaska. The straight line depicts the path the author and his wife usually traveled to and from Kali School. The dotted line represents ...