Sea otters help recover the kelp forests they depend on. Now scientists know how - While threatened by climate change, otters ...

Sea otter mamas are parenting on hard mode. They give birth in the water, to blind, helpless infants who have to be carried ...

When a mother sea otter needs to hunt for food, she carefully wraps her pup in a protective blanket of seagrass or kelp to keep them from drifting away with the ocean current. Fortunately ...

FEEDING: Underneath each of the sea otter's powerful front paws is a pouch to store food collected during foraging dives. Otters carry large stones between their forepaws on these dives, used to ...

“They seem to be incredibly resilient,” said Todd McLeish, author of “Return of the Sea Otter.” “Given a little bit of protection ... Still, otters do rely on urchins for nearly 20% of their food, ...

believe that Tlingit should consume the animals as food in order for the harvesting of sea otters to not be considered wasteful. Contemporary Tlingit do not eat sea otter. By arguing that this ...

Under each of the sea otter's forearms are folds of baggy skin, which act as built-in pouches for tools such as rocks and any extra food it has gathered. Sea otters have been observed to be ...

More than a decade later, we helped uphold the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to end a program relocating sea otters from a large portion of Southern California waters, including a ...

But this has given rise to a new problem: Thoughtless tourists operating drones close to sea otter herds to get a closer look, scaring them so they head back out to sea; one time for about six months.

The sea otter is one of 13 species of otter and is a member of the weasel family. It can be found on the Pacific coasts of North America and Asia. Sea otters spend most of their lives in the water ...