Hunted for their fur, California sea otters (a.k.a. southern sea otters, distinct from the northern Pacific subspecies found from Washington to Alaska) were nearly wiped out by the turn of the ...

Southern sea otters, Suri and Willow, spent two years at Shedd Aquarium preparing to care for otter pups Southern sea otters Suri and Willow returned to California's Aquarium of the Pacific after ...

A devastating sea star plague triggered an unexpected ecological shift, creating a mussel boom that sea otters turned into a buffet.

Frederick Dellenbaugh wrote on June 19 that "some Indians, Tlingit, had come along side in a canoe and ... protection of fur seals and sea otters in the North Pacific, by outlawing the killing ...

A two-year-old sea otter was rescued in Marina, California and has been moved to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago where she will ...

The rescued female otters, who are unable to return to the wild, were temporarily relocated from their home at the Aquarium of the Pacific in California to Chicago's Shedd Aquarium two years ago.