Seeing an otter mounting a surfboard is delightful. But behind the viral sensation is a lesson about how humans can get too close to wild animals they love. The otter wouldn’t let go the end of the ...

If you were to take a swim in the clear blue waters surrounding Santa Cruz, California, in recent days, you may have encountered an unlikely predator. Small and dark, whiskered and fluffy, she has ...

Social media lighted up this past holiday weekend with the return of Santa Cruz’s most infamous sea mammal: the surfboard-stealing Otter 841. “841 is back in the 831 at Steamer Lane,” Mark Woodward ...