After missing from the Oregon coast for more than a century, sea otters are getting a step closer to staging a comeback.

A TikTok video of a confident sea otter showing a fisherman a pebble it has been carrying around has gone viral - and social ...

The flames have died down at the Moss Landing battery storage plant in Monterey County after a massive fire last month.

Why do sea otters hold hands? As you’ll see in this video, it is actually a rather clever sea otter survival strategy!

The deceptively cute sea otter, named Ollie, has been seen toting around the bodies of river otters that have visible sexual ...

Their numbers plummeted. In the 20th century, California sea otters — also called southern sea otters — had almost disappeared and were believed extinct until a small group (or “raft”) of them ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to print (Opens in new window) A trio of southern sea otters frolic in a Monterey Bay wave ...

Overall, 18 species had populations that were either rising — including the giant sea bass, green sea turtle, and southern ...

On Thursday, the Aquarium of the Pacific released its first Marine Species Report Card, detailing the population trends of 30 ...

Sea otters are a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. There are only about 3,000 in California. "They're a keystone species," Lilian Caswell, southern sea otter researcher with the ...

and southern sea otter — or were stable with fluctuations — including the western snowy plover, California brown pelican, and Eastern North Pacific gray whale. Species on the decline — 12 of ...