SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — SeaWorld San Diego has taken in a baby sea otter that is unable to be released back into the wild. Rey is now an ambassador for her species in the Wild Arctic Exhibit.

The Arctic's modest summer temperatures always ... Phocine Distemper Virus in Northern Sea Otters in the Pacific Ocean, Alaska, USA. Tracey Goldstein et al. in Emerging Infectious Diseases ...

Bennett is now 5 months old and is preparing for his debut with the other rescued and rehabilitated southern sea otters in the Wild Arctic habitat at SeaWorld San Diego, where he will be an ...

Using 15 years of data from 2001 to 2016, Goldstein and her research team were able to see upticks in PDV that corresponded with declines in Arctic sea ice. This new range for the otters likely ...

Melting Arctic sea ice has opened new pathways for ... It reemerged in 2004, but this time in northern sea otters in Alaska. It was surprising that the disease jumped to a different species ...

Steller sea lions and northern sea otters from Southeast Alaska to Russia along the Aleutian Islands and the Bering, Chukchi and Beaufort seas. Arctic ocean sea ice and open water routes were ...

When the virus started to spread across species of otters, seals and sea lions in ... They also studied measurements of Arctic sea ice over the same time period and examined blood and nasal ...

The researchers detected major peaks in virus infection in north Pacific otters, sea lions and seals in 2003 and 2009, which were associated with the presence of a route through melted Arctic sea ...

Sampled mammals included ice-associated seals, northern fur seals, Steller sea lions and northern sea otters from Southeast Alaska to Russia along the Aleutian Islands and the Bering, Chukchi and ...