We are watching the end of Willapa Bay’s ecosystem in real time,” says shellfish farmer Warren Cowell, just after tallying ...

For more than a century, sea otters vanished from Washington’s waters, hunted to extinction and nearly erased from local history. Today, conservationists say their slow return to the coast underscores ...

What’s armored, covered in worms, and has a rasping tongue? If you said the stuff of nightmares, you’re not wrong. Luckily, however, the critter in question is pretty small—and now famous. Meet ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Saddle up Through Jan. 25. The return of the National Western Stock Show also marks the return of RiNo bar Number Thirty Eight’s Bison Days series. The sixth ...

Sea otters are fascinating, adorable marine mammals, most recognized for floating on their backs in cold ocean waters, cracking open crustaceans with rocks or shells. Living in groups called rafts, ...

Researchers studying North American river otters in Chesapeake Bay used scat analysis to uncover clues about their diet, social behavior, and use of coastal habitats. Credit: Shutterstock Scientists ...

Southern sea otters living along California’s coast are struggling in warmer seas, with new threats and changing food sources. They, like the other two sea otter subspecies, are classified as ...

Visitors line up to enter the new facility on the opening day in October. The agenda included close encounters with sharks, rays, manatees, penguins, sea otters, octopuses, coral reef and more as a ...

The rocky coves along California’s coast are home to one of nature’s most charismatic animals: the otter. Large groups of sea otters bob among the kelp, anchoring in place by wrapping themselves in ...

The Marine Mammal Center rescued an ailing sea otter from Morro Bay on Tuesday, but it was too sick to survive. The nonprofit started receiving calls about a young adult southern sea otter on Monday, ...

A baby sea otter happily reunited with its mother after the pup was found stranded in Morro Bay, Calif., recently. Experts from the Marine Mammal Center in San Luis Obispo were able to carry out the ...