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

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

A study last year strengthened the link between recovering sea otter populations and the long-term health of kelp forests – ...

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 ...

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 ...

After being absent for more than a century, an effort to repopulate the Oregon Coast with sea otters is in the works. Oregon non-profit The Elakha Alliance was founded in 2018 by Tribal leaders and ...

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 ...

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 ...