A new study sheds light on the power of keystone species, which could help ecologists in other environments. View on euronews ...

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

Adorably fuzzy sea otters aren’t just cute. The marine mammals serve a crucial role, helping to restore the giant kelp forests they rely on by removing their top predators, the sea urchins.

A sea otter floating above ribbons of kelp is undoubtedly one of nature’s cutest scenes. It’s well known that the marine mammals help make these sea surface ‘pillows’ more abundant ...

When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British Columbia, researchers saw kelp forests return to areas that were destroyed by sea urchins.

New modeling method helped researchers understand why kelp forests returned more slowly in Southern California than in British Columbia. When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of ...

Sea otter population growth during the last century has enhanced kelp forest resilience, according to researchers at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. When studying sea otters along the coastlines of ...

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 ...