Sea otters swim near the shore at Elkhorn Slough ... may hold lessons for the broad swaths of coastal California and Oregon where they have not yet recovered. In those areas, “their ecosystem ...

A lost California sea otter pup has been paired with an adoptive mother, just in time for Mother’s Day. This match is the first in a new program that pairs lost sea otter pups with surrogates at ...

And in her first year back in the sea, Otter 841 swam, ate and floated around California's central coast without incident, alongside a small population of other otters. Hunted to near extinction ...

An aquarium in California has vaccinated eight sea otters since August to protect them against COVID-19. "There's a lot of evidence that this family of animals - ferrets, mink, otters - are ...

Sea otter 841 foraging in shallow water in Santa Cruz, California It’s not just river otters making news this year. A female sea otter has been stealing boards from surfers off the coast of ...

California sea otters have the densest fur of any animal on Earth, with up to a million hairs per inch. Through the nineteenth century and into the early 1900s, that unique pelt made them the ...

California sea lions are members of the "eared seal" family, Otariidae. They are social animals and form large onshore groups over several hundred individuals. At sea they are fast, agile swimmers ...

Bixby is named after Bixby Estuary along California's Big Sur coast. This location is incredibly significant in the history of southern sea otters. It is the place where the last remaning southern ...

Sadly that thick, resplendent coat has also given otters some of the world's most valuable pelts. In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between ...

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