What type of meat depends on what's available. Most otters will eat crustaceans and fish, according to the Blue Reef Aquarium. For the North American river otter, fish, crayfish, frogs and turtles ...

But at California’s Elkhorn Slough, a reserve where about 120 southern sea otters live, the cute apex predators have led to green crabs’ demise by eating up to 120,000 of the invasive species ...

On occasion, twins are born, yet because females provide all of the parental care and the mother otter can't care for both twins, one is abandoned. Weighing up to five pounds, pups are born in the ...

She believes it was the return of native sea otters, in greater numbers. “Given that the of population size is about 100 and 120 currently in Elkhorn Slough, they can probably eat somewhere ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A California ecosystem has gotten a big boost from an adorable, fluffy and hungry friend. At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population ...