What you can see in this YouTube clip is very different from most of the underwater footage that you will come across online.

A kelp forest restoration project conducted by Ålesund, Norway-based ocean technology and seafood firm Ava Ocean is using ...

Kelp forests are underwater thickets of algae that keep the world’s oceans rich with biodiversity. And scientists just ...

Learn more about how one rescue diver–turned-conservationist is working to bring a thriving sea otter population back to the ...

Chicago's Shedd Aquarium has revealed the name of its newest sea otter. Ladies and gentlemen meet: Jade. Her new name honors ...

SEA OTTERS HAVE BEEN ABSENT from the Oregon Coast ever since the early 1900s, victims of the voracious fur trade, but their relationship to coastal tribes is long and special.

“Predators like sea stars and sea otters are essential to maintaining resilient ecosystems,” said co-author and aquarium Senior Sea Otter Biologist Leilani Konrad.

Both areas were mostly ‘urchin barrens’ – sites where sea urchins had overgrazed in the absence of sea otters – when the studies began.

While working on remote Alaskan islands, he found where sea otters were absent, sea urchin populations mushroomed, overtaking kelp forests.

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 ...

After missing from the Oregon coast for more than a century, sea otters are getting a step closer to staging a comeback. Local tribes and nonprofits have received a $1.56 million grant to lead the ...

The New York Aquarium has provided a home for 11 rescued sea otters since 1991. Southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis), also known as California sea otters, live on the coast of California.