A sea otter enjoyed whirling around her new habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo on Wednesday, November 19, after the zoo welcomed ...

The plan: use a Bluetooth speaker to play the recording across the bay, hoping the mother would recognize the sound and come ...

“That pup is really relying on everything it learns from the mother to be able to survive in the ocean,” Zink said, adding ...

Lowering it gently into the water, the pup floated helplessly on its back, rolling around as if it were on a thick quilt.

A baby sea otter happily reunited with its mother after the pup was found stranded in Morro Bay, Calif., recently. Experts ...

Sea otters are helping to keep the shores of a central Californian estuary from crumbling into the ocean. They act as erosion control by feasting on shore crabs — crustaceans whose burrowing and ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has been fostering abandoned sea otter pups for release into the wild. Now the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach is joining the effort, rehabbing its first orphaned baby.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Sea otters are warding off the accumulation of acidic carbon dioxide in Alaska's waters by preying on sea urchins that feed on underwater kelp beds vital to the oceans' ...