We hadn't seen this cute critter in almost two centuries and believed it was extinct, until a lone baby randomly showed up.

Otters are extremely intelligent and have learned to work smarter, not harder, using tools to get their food. If a rock doesn’t make a good hammer, it might make for a good anvil. Otters have been ...

Not surprisingly, otters spend most of their days diving for food and eating. What is surprising (to those who think of tool use as a primate skill, or at least a terrestrial one) is that otters ...

Sea otters are keystone species in kelp forests. Kelp forests rely on the top-down pressure sea otters exert via predation on ...

The light, fluffy fur keeps the pup from sinking while the mother forages for food. She wraps the pup in strands of kelp so it won’t drift away. The mother otter nurses the pup for around six ...