By comparison, a dog has about 60,000 hairs per square inch. Otters don't have a blubber layer like most marine mammals, it's the fur that keeps them warm and allows them to live in Alaskan waters." ...

Unlike most marine mammals, sea otters are primarily insulated by fur, not blubber. In fact they have the densest fur in the animal kingdom. Sadly that thick, resplendent coat has also given otters ...

A Guadalupe fur seal was spotted in the wild years after she was rehabilitated and released from a marine hospital in 2017, ...

which banned the hunting of fur seals at sea. In 1972, the Marine Mammal Protection Act was passed by Congress, which prohibits the hunting and killing of marine mammals. Two years after the act ...