Covered in lush fur, the thickest in the animal kingdom, sea otters can live their entire lives in the ocean, feeding heavily upon seafloor animals such as shellfish and crustaceans. Eelgrass ...

The grant will go towards conservation efforts to reintroduce sea otters to the coasts of Northern California and Oregon. These adorable mammals used to inhabit the area, but have been missing ...

Southern sea otters, Suri and Willow, spent two years at Shedd Aquarium preparing to care for otter pups Southern sea otters Suri and Willow returned to California's Aquarium of the Pacific after ...

TOBA, Mie (Kyodo) -- A central Japan aquarium offers a rare glimpse of sea otters floating on their backs and using rocks like masterful chefs to crack open clams, mussels and other shellfish treats.

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 ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Southern sea otter pup Bennett is getting ready for his debut at SeaWorld San Diego just a few months after being rescued as a newborn from a central California beach.

Because of their high metabolic rates, sea otters are especially vulnerable to disturbances that can increase their energy needs. New research in The Journal of Wildlife Management reveals how ...

In a vast storage room at a nickel plant in Hachinohe, northern Japan, a group of men in suits and hard hats are squatting on the floor admiring a row of trays. One contains a jet-black, rubble-like ...

June 2, 2025 — Some microbes living on sand grains use up all the oxygen around them. Their neighbors, left without oxygen, make the best of it: They use nitrate in the surrounding water for ...

"This was distinctly not a mammal," Starnes said. "This was definitely a sea lizard." Geologists in Mississippi found the vertebra of a mosasaur, a predatory marine lizard that lived in the ...

Estonia says Russia detained Greek-owned oil tanker on Sunday Vessel had left an Estonian Baltic Sea port bound for Rotterdam Shipping data shows vessel’s operator was Athens-based Aegean Ship ...