now that scientists have discovered that kelp forests temporarily store roughly 20 times more carbon per acre than woodest forests on land. Fortunately, sea otters have emerged as the unsuspecting ...

Sea otters have been missing from the Oregon coast for more than a century, and local non-profit Elakha Alliance is trying to ...

Local tribes and nonprofits have received a grant to lead the planning effort to bring back the furry mammals, which have ...

The threatened Eurasian otter appears to have disappeared in Kyrgyzstan, officials and scientists warned on Friday, following ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the ocean, climate change, and the future of our planet. Along the coast of British Columbia, Canada, researchers have been ...

Wild sea otters are no longer such a rare sight along the eastern coast of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. Experts reckon there are now more than 50 of the endangered marine ...

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 ...

A locally famous sea otter in Canada is gaining a reputation for violence after being spotted carrying around the bodies of dead river otters and using them for sexual purposes. Ollie, as he’s ...

DESCRIPTION: Sea otters use their rear flippers to move and their flat, muscular tails to steer. They have an exceptional sense of smell, hearing, and eyesight above water and below. Lacking blubber, ...

A sea otter off the coast of Vancouver Island is the prime suspect in a string of river otter deaths, according to a local wildlife enthusiast and researcher. Mollie Cameron, who is both a ...

They have the densest fur in the animal kingdom – a million hairs per square inch. Sea otters are the smallest marine mammals on earth. They have well rounded teeth adapted for crushing shells ...