The sea otter exhibit staff have been working ... The Monterey Bay Aquarium is set to welcome a new resident otter to the raft, but first they are asking for the community to help name her in ...

“We’re otter-ly excited to introduce our newest southern sea otter, Opal,” the aquarium wrote. Opal arrived at the Monterey Bay Aquarium after she was found stranded on a San Luis Obispo ... that ...

Yet, by the early 1900s, sea otters had been hunted nearly to extinction for their fur. In the 1930s, a raft of some 50 sea otters were discovered off the coast of Big Sur. Margaret Wentworth ...