A recent study found sea otters are eating thousands of green crabs at a California reserve, reducing the invasive species’ ...

If you’ve ever seen a picture or video of sea otters floating on their backs, holding hands as they snooze, you’ve probably ...

Sea otters are a rare species as humans excessively hunted them in the 18th and 19th Century. They were mainly hunted for ...

The research team estimated that sea otters local to the region eat 120,000 green crabs a year. It's an essential job, given ...

West coast states are spending millions to protect their inland waterways from invasive crabs. In some places, otters are ...

“Each otter has different features on its nose,” she says. “Stormy has the most unusual trait: the left side of his nose is black, but the right side is pink.” Ocean Park opened last week ...

A recent study was published in the scientific journal Biological Invasions, detailing that otters at the Elkhorn Slough are ...

But to her surprise, Jeppesen learned there was a much simpler way to remove the crabs in the slough she studied: furry and hungry sea otters. Sea otters are rare in most ecosystems after they ...

The orphaned sea otter who became a foster mother to 15 pups. By Malia Wollan No one knows how Rosa was orphaned in September 1999, in Santa Cruz County, Calif. She was nameless then, just 4 weeks ...

The Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward is hosting a special guest this holiday season; a northern sea otter named Phantom.