The Monterey Bay Aquarium located in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary along the Central Coast is home to southern ...

Sea otters have powerful teeth and even more powerful bites – an estimated 615 pounds of force. That’s about as much as a ...

It's even more critical we start this Monday on the right foot Watchers, as this is the Monday before April 1. Writer Nick M.

Naturalist Stan Tekiela explores the enduring charm, biology, and resilience of sea otters during a recent photo tour in ...

Sea lions on the California coast are displaying strange behavior likely due to a harmful algae bloom impacting the region, ...

One of two North American river otters who escaped from a Wisconsin zoo last month has returned home safe and sound.

A new otter will soon be splashing around the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The otter was stranded off the coast of San Luis Obispo County when she was 3 weeks old and unable to fend for herself, according ...

The sea otter’s grooming regimen will be familiar to anyone with a cat. Like cats, sea otters spend considerable time licking and biting their fur to keep it clean and conditioned. Also like cats, ...

sea otters, which at nearly four feet long and weighing up to 70 pounds, is the smallest marine mammal in North America. The aquarium has for more than 40 years operated a Sea Otter Program ...