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

Normally, otters mostly eat abalone and sea urchins, Mongabay explains. These creatures are relatively easy to eat. However, these main food sources are declining because of overfishing and rising ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A California ecosystem has gotten a big boost from an adorable, fluffy and hungry friend. At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population ...

Not surprisingly, otters spend most of their days diving for food and eating. What is surprising (to those who think of tool use as a primate skill, or at least a terrestrial one) is that otters ...

They start eating solid foods shortly after birth, but are dependent on their mothers for up to a year. Pups start diving within two months. LIFE CYCLE: Male sea otters live between 10 and 15 years, ...

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

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 ...

A two-year-old sea otter was rescued in Marina, California and has been moved to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago where she will ...

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 ...

Contemporary Tlingit do not eat sea otter. By arguing that this condition should be met before Alaska Natives should be entitled to harvest sea otters, these environmentalists are attempting to define ...