They roll up in the kelp getting their bodies wrapped up like a blanket and then drift off to sleep next to one another. Mother sea otters also uses kelp to hold her babies while she hunts.

From imperiled sea turtles in Central America to elephants ... it is great news about the baby otters. I'm old enough to remember when the Genesee River was in bad shape. It was almost a dead ...

In addition to holding hands, sea otters have developed another ingenious method for staying put while sleeping: using kelp as natural anchors. In kelp forest ecosystems along the Pacific coast, ...

After two years of parentening training at Chicago's Shedd Aquarium, southern sea otters Suri and Willow returned to the Aquarium of the Pacific in California so they can be surrogate moms to rescue ...

Now, Suri and Willow will put these skills to the test through the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Sea Otter Surrogacy Program Southern sea otters Suri and Willow are ready for next Mother's Day.

In the wake of the sea star die-off, mussels became a major prey surplus for sea otters, revealing a surprising link between the adjacent rocky intertidal and kelp forest ecosystems. The new ...

In the wake of the sea star die-off, mussels became a major prey surplus for sea otters, revealing a surprising link between the adjacent rocky intertidal and kelp forest ecosystems. The new ...

A central Japan aquarium offers a rare glimpse of sea otters floating on their backs and using rocks like masterful chefs to crack open clams, mussels and other shellfish treats. However, ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — Four baby otters are now in safe hands at Evelyn’s Wildlife Refuge after being rescued and brought in for rehabilitation—two of them just last week from Joint ...

The long-held understanding that baby salmon emerge from the streams where they hatched to head out to sea actually is missing a far more complex story — and a far more interesting one ...