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 ...

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

The Oregon Coast Community College Foundation is pleased to announce the return of the Williams Lecture Series. Briefly ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

After missing from the Oregon coast for more than a century, sea otters are getting a step closer to staging a comeback. Local tribes and nonprofits have received a $1.56 million grant to lead the ...

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 ...

Let’s talk about sea otters, because they are the most adorable ... the Kenai Fjords are arms/waterways that go between ...

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 ...