Sea otters might just be the cutest, most cuddling little critters on the planet. To see a sea otter demonstrate its ...

Much of the Elkhorn Slough estuary was diked in the past to cut off tidal ... It turns out that these areas with limited tidal exchange are places that sea otters generally avoid, and some are ...

But this has given rise to a new problem: Thoughtless tourists operating drones close to sea otter herds to get a closer look, scaring them so they head back out to sea; one time for about six months.

Bixby (a.k.a. Otter 1346) is one of the otter mums out in the kelp forests of Monterey. She's only been known to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Sea Otter Research and Conservation team (SORAC ...