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By Edward Carver Sea otters living along the coastline of Canada’s British Columbia province carry residues of “forever ...

An invasive species had taken over ecosystems across the West Coast and was threatening to dominate another one in Monterey County, California, when ecologist Rikke Jeppesen began her research two ...

It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public ...

The Cincinnati Zoo is welcoming a new species of otters for the first time.On Tuesday, the zoo announced that Southern sea otters Chloe and Kevin had arrived and can be seen by the public.The ...

Otters are carnivorous mammals in the Lutrinae branch of the diverse Mustelidae family, which includes weasels, badgers, stoats, wolverines, and ferrets, among others. There are 13 living otter ...

The California sea otter, once hunted to the edge of extinction, has staged a thrilling comeback in the last century. Now, a team of scientists has discovered that the otters' success story has led to ...

The California sea otter, once hunted to the edge of extinction, has staged a thrilling comeback in the last century. Now, a team of scientists has discovered that the otters' success story has led to ...

California sea otter populations have rebounded in recent decades. New research finds that by feasting on shore crabs, these otters are helping to... California sea otters nearly went extinct. Now ...