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 ...

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 ...

When kelp forests disappear, the animals that live amongst them disappear in turn, taking critical food resources away from bigger marine life like ... Fortunately, sea otters have emerged as ...

alongside other Sea Life centres around the world. The UK's first rescued Alaskan sea otters, Ozzy and Ola, were weighed in Birmingham, measuring 27.5kg (61lbs) and 22.8kg (50lbs) respectively.

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 ...