If you’ve ever seen a picture or video of sea otters floating on their backs, holding hands as they snooze, you’ve probably ...

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, by eating the sea ...

A phone call interrupted Aashish Kapali’s quiet afternoon. The voice on the other end was urgent: “There’s a body of an otter ...

Otters are sensitive to water pollution, making them reliable indicators of water quality and ecosystem health.

Otters eat while floating on their backs, using their chests as dining tables. THREATS: Wastes containing heavy metals, pesticides, and PCBs continually pour into coastal waters, threatening sea otter ...

Unlike most marine mammals, sea otters are primarily insulated by fur, not blubber. In fact they have the densest fur in the animal kingdom. Sadly that thick, resplendent coat has also given otters ...

The playful North American river otter is equally at home in the water and on land. It makes its home in a burrow near the water's edge, and can thrive in river, lake, swamp, or estuary ecosystems.

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 ...