Zoo visitors can now say, "Hello!" to sea otters for the very first time at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. Kevin and Chloe, two southern sea otters, arrived at the Cincinnati Zoo on Nov. 17, ...

Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. It’s Sea Otter Awareness Week, which has been ...

Two rescued sea otters showed off their dunking skills at the Oregon Zoo as they played “basketball,” part of the zoo’s enrichment program for the animals. This footage filmed and posted to X by the ...

A trio of southern sea otters frolic in a Monterey Bay wave near the end of Rockview Drive in Pleasure Point this week. According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s website, the bay is currently host to ...

Sea otters play a vital role in their ecosystems by controlling sea urchin populations. Without otters, urchins can overgraze kelp forests, causing widespread destruction. By keeping urchins in check, ...

It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public hotline: there were distressed cries coming from the frigid waters in Morro ...