The orphaned sea otter who became a foster mother to 15 pups. By Malia Wollan No one knows how Rosa was orphaned in September ...

A California ecosystem has gotten a big boost from an adorable, fluffy and hungry friend. At Elkhorn Slough ...

Though sea otters are an unofficial mascot of Monterey County and popular among tourists and locals alike, they are also ...

Their numbers plummeted. In the 20th century, California sea otters — also called southern sea otters — had almost disappeared and were believed extinct until a small group (or “raft”) of them ...

There are 13 species of otter, with southern sea otters being one of the largest. “They are one of the few tool users in the animal kingdom,” Law said. One species of river otter lives in Texas.

This location is incredibly significant in the history of southern sea otters. It is the place where the last remaning southern sea otters were discovered in 1938. Before then, southern sea otters ...

These pics span our five zoological parks New York City and some of the places where we work to save wildlife and wild places ...

If you were to take a swim in the clear blue waters surrounding Santa Cruz, California, in recent days, you may have encountered an unlikely predator. Small and dark, whiskered and fluffy, she has ...

Baby otters hang around their moms for as long as eight to 11 months, compared to the mere four to six weeks that sea lions spend in their mothers’ care. But what happens when juvenile white sharks ...