Science news articles about 'arctic mammals'

The polar bear has become an icon of global warming vulnerability, but a new study found an Arctic mammal that may be even more at risk to climate change: the narwhal.

... would be reduced by almost half, helping preserve fisheries and populations of sea birds and Arctic mammals in such regions as the northern Bering Sea. Significant regional changes in precipitation, ...

... the possibility of new intercontinental migrations by mammals." Because the oldest known tapir fossils are from the Arctic, there is the possibility that some prehistoric mammals could have evolved ...