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

Located at the Fort Ross State Historic Park within The Greater Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, the Fort Ross Conservancy works to promote coastal preservation, conservation, education and ...

SANTA CRUZ — To underscore the urgency of responding to the steep decline in kelp forests, filmmaker Natasha Benjamin posits an alarming hypothetical: what if 95% of California’s redwoods were to ...

A Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering West Marin, including the towns of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Bolinas, Stinson Beach, Marshall, Nicasio, Lagunitas, Woodacre, San Geronimo, Forest Knolls, ...

Rochelle BakerLocal Journalism Initiative ReporterCanada's National Observer A “shocking” amount of marine life is being ...

Sea otters are surprisingly good at using tools. If they come across a particularly tough clam shell and they are desperate to reach the meat inside, they have a plan. They deploy their trusty rock to ...

The LEGO Ideas Floating Sea Otters set is now available to preorder from both Amazon and the LEGO Store for $119.99. It's set ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adorable footage posted on January 28 captures scenes from a special snack-related soiree enjoyed by several of Oregon Zoo’s sea ...

On a remote Alaskan island, gray wolves are rewriting the rulebook by hunting sea otters — a behavior few scientists ever expected to see. Researchers are now uncovering how these coastal wolves ...

New research has uncovered a mass die-off of sea urchins living in the Canary Islands—one that could signal an ongoing marine pandemic. Reading time 3 minutes An apocalyptic serial killer of sea ...

The 2025 Life Time Grand Prix kicked off with Thursday’s 2025 Sea Otter Classic Gravel Race. The 90-mile gravel race replaced the Fuego XL mountain bike race that the Grand Prix used last year. In the ...

Gray wolves are hunting sea otters. Scientists are studying how land predators adapt to ocean hunting and what this means for ecosystems.