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Vikings probably hunted Iceland's walruses to extinction for ivory

16 September 2019

Iceland had a unique population of walruses that disappeared after people first settled there – probably because the Vikings hunted them to extinction

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Vikings probably hunted Iceland's walruses to extinction for ivory

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