Sea otters help recover the kelp forests they depend on. Now scientists know how - While threatened by climate change, otters ...

There is much concern about the accelerated pace of extinctions globally, so when a species is rediscovered, it gives hope to ...

Sea otters help kelp forests recover by controlling sea urchins, but their impact varies. In British Columbia, recovery was ...

There’s also a southern sea otter population in Central California, counting several thousand animals; it’s listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in California.

Otters are no longer classified as a protected species in Wyoming, but that doesn’t mean they’ll be getting killed anytime ...

New modeling method helped researchers understand why kelp forests returned more slowly in Southern California than in British Columbia. When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of ...