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.

DESCRIPTION: Sea otters use their rear flippers to move and their flat, muscular tails to steer. They have an exceptional sense of smell, hearing, and eyesight above water and below. Lacking blubber, ...

The sneaky snackers? Sea otters. Once nearly wiped out by the fur trade, these playful predators had made a sudden comeback—and with them, so had the entire habitat. Today, about 100 otters call ...

Wild sea otters are no longer such a rare sight along the eastern coast of Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost main island. Experts reckon there are now more than 50 of the endangered marine ...

A sea otter floating above ribbons of kelp is undoubtedly one of nature’s cutest scenes. It’s well known that the marine mammals help make these sea surface ‘pillows’ more abundant ...

sea otters, penguins, and puffins. However, you can’t go inland and see one of those. Most folks are also probably familiar with the cute and fuzzy sea otters of the West Coast of the U.S ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Sea otters have been missing from the Oregon coast for more than a century, and local non-profit Elakha Alliance is trying to bring them back. The marine mammals, which help ...

Sure, sea otters learning to slam dunk is an impressive sight, but sometimes there’s nothing cuter than animals doing what they do best. In this case, smashing open some clams as a midday treat.