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 ...

For the North American river otter, fish, crayfish, frogs and turtles are on the menu, Smithsonian's National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute reports.Meanwhile, sea otters may snack on ...

Once numbering between 150,000 and 300,000, California’s southern sea otter population dropped to 50 at its lowest. Now, there are 3,000 thanks to conservation efforts, but their status is still ...

Sea Otter Show Striking Variability In Diets And Feeding Strategies. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 4, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2008 / 01 / 080114173901.htm ...

Sea otter populations are rebounding in the eastern North Pacific. There, they devour huge quantities of shellfish and other marine critters that people like to eat, too. But any commercial losses ...

A southern sea otter grooms while her pup nurses in Moss Landing. Female sea otters expend enormous amounts of energy on pup-rearing. (Photo by Lilian Carswell/USFWS) A southern sea otter enjoys an ...

Once numbering between 150,000 and 300,000, California’s southern sea otter population dropped to 50 at its lowest. Now, there are 3,000 thanks to conservation efforts, but their status is still ...

They eat so many of the dark, pincushion-like creatures that the sea otters’ teeth and bones turn purple. It’s “an-otter” example of “you are what you eat.” The Spokesman-Review Newspaper ...

Sea otters eat up to a quarter of their body weight each day in abalone, crab, octopus — and the purple urchins that are laying waste to California’s kelp forests.

A sea otter surfaced with a large shark in its grasp recently, to the astonishment of onlookers. But what happened next is not clear. The accompanying images, captured last Tuesday by Don ...

Most alarming was the unexpected association between DA exposure and heart disease risk according to sea otter age. Adults of prime reproductive age (~4 years old) that were exposed to high levels of ...