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!

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

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 ...

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 ...

There are now about 30,000 sea otters in Southeast Alaska and about 2,000 in Washington, Bacchieri said. There’s also a southern sea otter population in Central California, counting several ...