A southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) foraging on a purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) in Monterey Bay, California, USA. Image by Morgan Rector. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

Open the Youtube video Sea otters are the smallest marine mammals, but they have some incredible adaptations to thrive in the ocean. Unlike seals and whales, they don’t have a thick layer of blubber ...

More than a decade later, we helped uphold the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to end a program relocating sea otters from a large portion of Southern California waters, including a ...

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

After being absent for more than a century, an effort to repopulate the Oregon Coast with sea otters is in the works. Oregon ...

Advocates hope their plan will spur the federal government to put sea otter reintroduction on a fast-track, possibly returning the animals within a decade. FAILED REINTRODUCTION Sea otters were ...

Sea otter imports to Japan from the United States ceased in 1998, and from Russia in 2003. In 2000, the International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the sea otter as endangered.

As you’ll see in this video, it is actually a rather clever survival strategy for a sea otter! The life of a sea otter is filled with dangers, from oil spills and pollution to devastating storms ...

to reduce the otter population and restore local stocks of clams, geoduck, sea urchin, mussels, sea cucumber, abalone, scallops, crab, and octopus. “There are approximately 35 hunters in the ...

After the marriage, Sea Otter would leave gifts on the beach for her community.” But the animals were hunted down to extinction during the fur trade era. The last known Oregon sea otter was shot ...

The sea otter is one of 13 species of otter and is a member of the weasel family. It can be found on the Pacific coasts of North America and Asia. Sea otters spend most of their lives in the water ...