snaps photos — not of the park’s stunning mountains or eponymous ice walls, but of the ocean’s surface. She’s looking for the sleek, voracious carnivores that have come to inhabit Glacier Bay in ...

open image in gallery Sea otters are a keystone species, meaning they help to hold their ecosystem together. But, the otters are threatened by climate change and other hazards (Getty Images ...

Sea otters have naturally occurring nose scars from copulation and fighting, which can be used to identify individuals based on the size, shape and location of the scars. However, matching the scars ...

A locally famous sea otter in Canada is gaining a reputation ... He has his own Facebook fan page, chock-full of adorable photos. Cameron, who is the director of wildlife education nonprofit ...

UC Santa Cruz researchers are monitoring sea otters at Elkhorn Slough for potential impacts from the Moss Landing battery plant fire. Sea otters are a threatened species under the Endangered ...

sea otters, penguins, and puffins. However, you can’t go inland and see one of those. Most folks are also probably familiar with the cute and fuzzy sea otters of the West Coast of the U.S ...

Sure, sea otters learning to slam dunk is an impressive sight, but sometimes there’s nothing cuter than animals doing what they do best. In this case, smashing open some clams as a midday treat.

Wild sea otters are no longer such a rare sight along the eastern coast of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. Experts reckon there are now more than 50 of the endangered marine ...

Adorably fuzzy sea otters aren’t just cute. The marine mammals serve a crucial role, helping to restore the giant kelp forests they rely on by removing their top predators, the sea urchins.