GlobalPost.com staff

In Russia and China, citizens are stockpiling essentials and counting down until Dec. 21, 2012, the end of the Mayan Long Count Calendar. In America, guns are reportedly flying off the shelves in preparation for a possible coming apocalypse.

Two baby walruses, abandoned off Alaska's northern coast earlier this summer, have been delivered to their new digs at Lower 48 zoos, courtesy FedEx, after recuperating at Alaska SeaLife Center.