Comical pictures show a greedy otter biting off more than it can chew after catching a giant crab for its breakfast. The ...

After three decades of otter reintroduction efforts, staff at Eagle Creek Park are finally seeing evidence the animals have ...

Just by eating sea urchins and destructive shellfish, sea otters are keeping kelp forests healthy and coastal erosion at bay.

Sea otters are surprisingly good at using tools. If they come across a particularly tough clam shell and they are desperate to reach the meat inside, they have a plan. They deploy their trusty rock to ...

Gray wolves are hunting sea otters. Scientists are studying how land predators adapt to ocean hunting and what this means for ecosystems.

When Jessica Fujii was in kindergarten, she drew a picture of her future. In a “What do you want to be when you grow up?” booklet, she skipped ballerina and veterinarian, and wrote down something else ...

SEATTLE — The Seattle Aquarium has a new resident making a splash. Ruby, a southern sea otter from Monterey Bay Aquarium, arrived in Seattle this week and is already settling into her new home ...

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, ...

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 ...

TYLER, Texas — East Texans don't have to travel far to see the Amazon River's edge because it's at the Caldwell Zoo in Tyler. There, visitors will also find the giant river otters, who are playful ...