In the neighboring Tomales Bay, the European green crab alone has caused a clam harvesting decline of up to 40%. On the East ...

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

When a mother sea otter needs to hunt for food, she carefully wraps her pup in a protective blanket of seagrass or kelp to keep them from drifting away with the ocean current. Fortunately ...

In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...

What do otters eat? Otters are carnivores, so their diets primarily consist of meat. What type of meat depends on what's ...

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

Russian hunters pursued Alaskan sea otters for their luxuriant pelts — the ... diminished Alaska Natives’ subsistence foods. Although otters are protected from hunting under the Marine Mammal ...

Adorably fuzzy sea otters aren’t just cute. The marine mammals serve a crucial role, helping to restore the giant kelp forests they rely on by removing their top predators, the sea urchins.

IF YOU are a fan of sea otters, you may have observed ... a rock in the middle of the ocean? Does the otter dive down to the seafloor to hunt for a suitable stone whenever it wants to have ...

Disaster could follow. Africa's vultures are disappearing. Disaster could follow. Wolves hunt sea otters and seals, a startling find Wolves hunt sea otters and seals, a startling find Sea otters ...