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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

MONTEREY BAY, CALIF. — The 2½-week-old sea otter cried for help. Stranded in a tide pool after heavy winds and strong surf near the edge of the bay, it was ashore and alone. When Sandrine Hazan ...

Because sea otters eat the crabs, study co-author Brent Hughes, a marine ecologist at Sonoma State University in Rohnert Park, California, and colleagues wanted to know whether the predator’s ...

An 8-week-old arrival from Alaska chirps loudly before devouring ice chips in the nursery at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium.

The return of sea otters, a top predator, to a California estuary is helping slow erosion and restore the estuary’s degraded geology. A sea otter in the estuarine water of Elkhorn Slough ...

Penguin and otter manager Lana Gonzalez holds a bottle of formula for an eight-week-old sea otter rescued from Seldovia, Alaska, at Shedd Aquarium Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, in Chicago.

The zoo will celebrate Sea Otter Awareness Week Sept. 22-28 with a full slate of otter-themed games and conversations spotlighting some of the ocean’s most charismatic creatures. Volunteers and ...

The orphaned sea otter who became a foster mother to 15 pups. By Malia Wollan No one knows how Rosa was orphaned in September 1999, in Santa Cruz County, Calif. She was nameless then, just 4 weeks ...