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.

You’ve likely seen those heartwarming images of darling little sea otters floating on their backs with their tiny hands ...

A southern sea otter (Enhydra lutris nereis) foraging on a purple sea urchin (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) in Monterey Bay, California, USA. Image by Morgan Rector. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert!

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 ...

For generations, southern sea otters (Enhydra lutris nereis) have relied on the abundant urchins and abalone that populate the kelp forests as their primary food sources. These preferred prey ...

Local tribes and nonprofits have received a grant to lead the planning effort to bring back the furry mammals, which have ...

This location is incredibly significant in the history of southern sea otters. It is the place where the last remaning southern sea otters were discovered in 1938. Before then, southern sea otters ...

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 ...