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

Awwww, look at this sweet baby! People online were positively swooning over a baby otter that was caught chewing on a ...

Mother sea otters also uses kelp to hold her babies while she hunts. Baby sea otters have to learn how to swim, and therefore usually just bob around on the surface waiting for its mother.

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

But it’s not just staying afloat that’s key to a life at sea – groups of otters hold hands and tangle themselves in kelp forests to make sure they don’t drift apart.

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 ...