A sea otter feeding in Glacier Bay, Alaska photographed by scientist Jim Bodkin. Click image for a larger view. Ironically, it is the otter's fur that brought the animal to the brink of extinction.

Meet Ollie, the “Salish Sea Serial Killer,” a cute, furry sea otter with a dark side and a rap sheet longer than the ‘Colwood ...

Sea otters were once common around the North Pacific but were eradicated from southeast Alaska by about A.D. 1830 due to the commercial fur trade. In the 1960s, sea otters were re-introduced to ...

Sadly that thick, resplendent coat has also given otters some of the world's most valuable pelts. In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between ...

Sitka's maritime expansion, urgent need for O Negative blood donations, a sea otter's successful release in Seward, and a beautiful First Day Hike at Eklutna Lake in Chugach ...

A male sea otter suspected of killing and defiling at least 20 river otters over the past decade may be doing so because of a ...

Russia had decided to sell Alaska, but the question was: how would America buy it? At the time, most Americans couldn't ...

There are three species of sea otters: Northern sea otters are found in the Pacific Ocean along the coast of Washington, Canada, and Alaska. Southern (or California) sea otters live off the ...

At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population of native southern sea otters has eaten ... waters from California to Alaska. In California, researchers ...

At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population of native southern sea otters has eaten so many invasive European green crabs ... devouring baby crab and salmon ...