Jane Goodall is returning to the Monterey Peninsula to speak at Sunset Center on April 7, during a sold-out lecture on behalf ...

Sea otter mamas are parenting on hard mode. They give birth in the water, to blind, helpless infants who have to be carried ...

Northern sea otters didn’t get federal safeguards along with their California cousins. So in 2000, the Center petitioned the Service to protect otters in southwest Alaska as a “distinct population ...

The otters, sea lions, and seals were by far the most popular animals during my recent visit to the Seattle Aquarium, and it ...

There are three subspecies of sea otters: Southern sea otters live along the coast of central California. Northern sea otters live along the coasts of Washington and Alaska. Russian sea otters ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service, just like the nonprofit, concluded that sea otter reintroduction would work in Oregon and Northern California from a biological, socioeconomic and legal aspect.

Sea otter numbers in the northern Pacific Ocean are thought to have ranged from around 150,000 to 300,000 up until the 18th century. But overhunting for their pelts brought the number down to ...

Sea otters help kelp forests recover by controlling sea urchins, but their impact varies. In British Columbia, recovery was ...

Because of their high metabolic rates, sea otters are especially vulnerable to disturbances that can increase their energy ...

After missing from the Oregon coast for more than a century, sea otters are getting a step closer to staging a comeback. Local tribes and nonprofits have received a $1.56 million grant to lead the ...