Walrus sounds like he's burping, but he's actually SINGING: Watch viral of massive mammal crooning a tune and whistling It ain't over until the fat mammal sings. Oh, ok then: it's over.

The Mosasaur, the giant underwater dinosaur, had walrus and beluga whale in its roar. The gyrosphere sounds were made using different types of glass, including everything from a potter’s wheel ...

Dr. Reichmuth decided to study walruses after she heard a recording of a wild male walrus. The creature’s sounds seemed straight out of “Stomp,” the infamously percussive off-Broadway show.

Sounds like a walrus, right? In fact, the extinct animal was a member of a different marine mammal genus entirely, as different from a modern walrus as a fox is from your dog.

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