"This rare discovery marks a historic moment." ...

Just by eating sea urchins and destructive shellfish, sea otters are keeping kelp forests healthy and coastal erosion at bay.

2023 sea otter reintroduction petition 2005 federal Endangered Species Act listing of southwest Alaska population 2003 southern sea otter recovery plan 2000 petition to list southwest Alaska sea otter ...

"So in other words, you can say that sea otters are our assistant managers of the estuary for invasive species control." What's more, they're biologically predisposed to eating a lot of crabs, she ...

The otters were listed as threatened and named a protected federal species in 1977. From that small group they've begun a slow comeback. The first male sea otter arrived in the Elkhorn Slough, 35 ...

Out-of-control invasive species has met its match: Cute and hungry otters West coast states are spending millions to protect their inland waterways from invasive crabs.

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.

Sea otters were hunted to local extinction more than 100 years ago. Their absence left a hole in Oregon Coast ecosystems that's being felt now more than ever.

Green crabs have invaded habitats. Sea otters might be the solution. A recent study found sea otters are eating thousands of green crabs at a California reserve, reducing the invasive species ...

And we did a high and a low estimate of how many green crabs can the sea otter population actually consume over the course of the year. And it's somewhere between 50,000, but maybe up to 120,000 ...