It’s Sea Otter Awareness Week, which means it’s a great time to learn about everyone’s favorite aquatic fluffball! And the first thing you “otter” know about sea otters is that they are ...

MONTEREY BAY, CALIF. — The 2½-week-old sea otter cried for help. Stranded in a tide pool after heavy winds and strong surf near the edge of the bay, it was ashore and alone. When Sandrine Hazan ...

After weeks of training behind-the-scenes, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's newest sea otter, Opal, officially joined the sea otter exhibit. Visitors can now see Opal playing with her "raftmates," sea ...

The 5-year-old female southern sea otter in the Santa Cruz area is exhibiting "concerning and unusual behaviors," the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told USA TODAY.

Recovering sea otter populations are helping to restore the local ecoystem. By Julia Jacobo. January 31, 2024, 11:01 AM. 1:44. A sea otter is seen in Elkhorn Slough, California, in 2019.

If and when search teams capture her, Otter 841 will spend the rest of her life in captivity, away from the natural population. The otter's behavior is unusual, but it follows a familiar pattern ...

SOME twenty years ago, in the days of the Bering Sea question, Captain Snow was well known as an authority on certain of the fur-seal fisheries of the North Pacific, and he was, and still is ...

An adult sea otter can weigh 30 to 100 pounds, and reach 5 feet in length. Since then, Woodward has witnessed three more encounters and has heard about plenty more.

California wildlife officials are hoping to apprehend a 5-year-old sea otter, who has a knack for riding the waves after committing longboard larceny. By Annie Roth Annie Roth lives in Santa Cruz ...

Sea otters are helping to keep the shores of a central Californian estuary from crumbling into the ocean. They act as erosion control by feasting on shore crabs — crustaceans whose burrowing and ...

It's Sea Otter Awareness Week, which means it's a great time to learn about everyone's favorite aquatic fluffball! And the first thing you "otter" know about sea otters is that they are way bigger ...

A rescued northern sea otter pup plays with toys in his behind-the-scenes enclosure at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium on Dec. 7, 2023. The otter was found alone and malnourished and taken to the Alaska ...