The Alaska Department of Fish and Game shared that a group of river otters has attacked two humans and two dogs in the Anchorage area Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - In addition to dealing with international shipping and the occasional Orca whale, sea-otters around Akun Island, Alaska soon may have to deal with construction of an air and ...

Residents of Alaska's largest city often contend with bears and moose, but state officials are warning of another wild animal that has been causing problems: river otters. The Alaska Department of ...

Southwest Alaska’s sea otters, which have undergone dramatic and mysterious declines in recent years, will receive Endangered Species Act protection under an Interior Department proposal announced ...

"They travel over a wide area, and apparently there are no exclusive territories," Fish and Game said. "Fighting among otters is extremely rare, although they are wary of strange individuals." The ...

Otters are notoriously cute animals… until they attack your Labradoodle and pull her under the water. Such is the behavior of some decidedly not cute Alaskan otters, who may possibly be afflicted with ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. For more than a decade, researchers on a ...

Wolves on Pleasant Island are actively hunting and eating sea otters. Stan Tekiela Author / Naturalist / Wildlife Photographer via Getty Images Wolves on an Alaskan island have turned to hunting and ...

They may be cute, but the voracious appetites of sea otters continue to cause significant damage to some of Southeast Alaska’s most lucrative fisheries. How best to curtail those impacts will be the ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Alaska man rescued his family’s dog from an attack by river otters in a small lake at an Anchorage park, he said. Kenny Brewer waded waist-deep into Taku Lake and suffered a ...

Anchorage, Alaska, is home to a population of river otters, which are usually peaceful. But three attacks, two of which involved people, have been reported in the past month. There is no obvious ...