Sea otters are critical players in marine ecosystems and are a keystone species, meaning they have a profound effect on their ...

Sea otters consume their prey at the surface, which is key to recording what they eat and where they forage. Following the loss of Pisaster, sea otters more than doubled their mussel consumption ...

After weeks of training behind-the-scenes, the Monterey Bay Aquarium's newest sea otter, Opal, officially joined the sea otter exhibit. Visitors can now see Opal playing with her "raftmates," sea ...

A devastating sea star plague triggered an unexpected ecological shift, creating a mussel boom that sea otters turned into a buffet.

In 2013, a sea star wasting syndrome decimated populations of Pisaster along the west coast of North America and along the Monterey Peninsula in California, where this study was conducted. The orange ...

Caption A Southern sea otter foraging and eating mussels in Monterey Bay. Research led by Monterey Bay Aquarium published in the journal Science Advances shows that a mass die-off of ochre sea ...

But what do these otters eat? What Do Freshwater Otters Eat? Asian small-clawed otters live in the wetlands and coastal swamps of southeast Asia, China, the Philippines, and Indonesia. ©Tom ...

After a filling meal, these otters like to do their business on prominent rocks or logs along the waterways where they live. This scat is an ideal way for researchers to dissect their diet. Most ...

A photographer shares the epiphanies she has had while chronicling underwater jungles off the California coast ...

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