It’s Sea Otter Awareness Week, which means it’s a great time to learn about everyone’s favorite aquatic fluffball! And the first thing you “otter” know about sea otters is that they are ...

MONTEREY BAY, CALIF. — The 2½-week-old sea otter cried for help. Stranded in a tide pool after heavy winds and strong surf near the edge of the bay, it was ashore and alone. When Sandrine Hazan ...

The orphaned sea otter who became a foster mother to 15 pups. By Malia Wollan No one knows how Rosa was orphaned in September 1999, in Santa Cruz County, Calif. She was nameless then, just 4 weeks ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Wildlife officials were trying to capture a wayward sea otter Thursday that has been wrestling surfboards away from surfers and aggressively approaching kayakers off the ...

SOME twenty years ago, in the days of the Bering Sea question, Captain Snow was well known as an authority on certain of the fur-seal fisheries of the North Pacific, and he was, and still is ...

Recovering sea otter populations are helping to restore the local ecoystem. By Julia Jacobo. January 31, 2024, 11:01 AM. 1:44. A sea otter is seen in Elkhorn Slough, California, in 2019.

A rescued northern sea otter pup plays with toys in his behind-the-scenes enclosure at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium on Dec. 7, 2023. The otter was found alone and malnourished and taken to the Alaska ...

The 5-year-old female southern sea otter in the Santa Cruz area is exhibiting "concerning and unusual behaviors," the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service told USA TODAY.

If and when search teams capture her, Otter 841 will spend the rest of her life in captivity, away from the natural population. The otter's behavior is unusual, but it follows a familiar pattern ...

Known as Otter 841, the notorious five-year-old sea otter has been evading capture from U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials who have deemed her a public safety hazard, describing her behavior ...

The heartwarming sight of an otter mom and her pup playing and spinning in the water greeted visitors to the Morro Bay Harbor Walk on Tuesday along California's Central Coast. December 4, 2024 ...

California wildlife officials are hoping to apprehend a 5-year-old sea otter, who has a knack for riding the waves after committing longboard larceny. By Annie Roth Annie Roth lives in Santa Cruz ...