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 ...

Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a ...

How cute critters can inspire kids to protect the ocean. ... Nature gives animals all kinds of storage compartments. ... Luna the Sea Otter. Luna the Sea Otter. Read. Moment of Snooze. Kids.

Most people think of sea otters as cute, fuzzy creatures cracking open shellfish - but some are skilled and fearless octopus hunters. In this episode, we follow the surprising predatory side of ...

The last time I wrote about otters I stated that sea otters are in my top 10 list of “most appealing adult mammals.” First, ...

The sea otters at the Vancouver Aquarium have been enjoying the recent snow. V.S. Wells. Sea otters were hunted heavily for their pelts for over a century, beginning in the 1700s and ending in ...

Advancing surrogate-rearing methods to enhance southern sea otter recovery. Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens. Southern Sea Otter Rehabilitation: Lessons and Impacts from the Monterey Bay ...

While sharks likely spring to mind as one of the scariest animals in the ocean, surfers off the coast of Santa Cruz have lately been terrorized by something much cuter — a 5-year-old female sea ...

It’s Sea Otter Awareness Week, which has been recognized for more than two decades. It started as a way to inform people about the vital role these animals play in coastal marine ecosystems.

Sea otters are native to B.C.'s coast, but they were eradicated as a result of the fur trade. Populations were reintroduced in the early 70s, and in 2020, a federal Department of Fisheries and ...

The otter wouldn’t let go the end of the surfboard. The surfer, who was trying to spend his Sunday riding the waves near Santa Cruz, Calif., rocked the board back and forth, trying to nudge the ...