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 ...

Urchin harvesters tried to get southern sea otters’ threatened status under the Endangered Species Act revoked.

Rescuers are saving baby sea otters in the hopes of someday repopulating much of the West Coast with them. But they have to do so without loving them to death.

What can we do? Here’s one excellent solution: eat their roe, a buttery delicacy that can fetch hundreds of dollars per kilogram. Tasmania already has a government-backed urchin fishery.

Just by eating sea urchins and destructive shellfish, sea otters are keeping kelp forests healthy and coastal erosion at bay.

Warming sea water has triggered an explosion in the population of purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) which devour kelp at an alarming rate.

The California Sea Urchin Commission and Commercial Fishermen of Santa Barbara sought to strip protections on the grounds that otter numbers and their range have increased since they were listed ...

The Beidao sea turtle protection center in Sansha, Hainan province has long been working on the research of green sea turtle populations, as well as turtle ecology and conservation biology.

Urchin harvesters tried to get southern sea otters’ threatened status under the Endangered Species Act revoked.

To dig into the correlation between erosion and sea otters, the team compared several lines of evidence, such as historical erosion rates in Elkhorn Slough and sea otter population trends.

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 ...