Carley Thayer’s work is connected to both distant and immediate relatives. Thayer makes earrings and accessories from harvested sea otter fur and pays homage to her Aleut forefathers under the ...

California sea otters (Enhydra lutris) — the frolicking mascots of the coast who draw visitors to aquariums in droves and who float among the kelp beds just beyond the surf line — have the densest fur ...

I once rubbed my hand over a sea otter pelt; it was the softest fur I have ever felt. Their fur is the reason for their near demise, initially at the hands of the Russians in the 1700s.

Sea otters have a thick layer of fur that is the densest in the entire animal kingdom. - Their fur is so dense that in some areas of their body, in a square inch about this big, they have up to a ...

Adorable orphaned sea otter pup gets his fur fluffed By Elly Schmidt-Hopper Updated Sep 25, 2015 12:47 p.m. The Monterey Bay Aquarium staff grooms a baby sea otter (known as Otter 696) for two to ...

An international e-commerce retailer has relisted items that a Juneau resident crafted from sea otter fur. Listen now. It happened on Saturday, after the Alaska Native artist petitioned Etsy to ...

The sea otter’s grooming regimen will be familiar to anyone with a cat. Like cats, sea otters spend considerable time licking and biting their fur to keep it clean and conditioned. Also like ...

Dr. Rosita Worl, President of Sealaska Heritage Institute, holds up sea otter fur during a speech by Dr. Madonna Moss, professor of anthropological archaeology at the University of Oregon, on ...

Northern sea otters were hunted to near extinction during the Russian fur trade. ... From 2002 to 2011, the sea-otter population more than doubled from 11,000 to 25,500.

Sea otters aren’t just cute -- they’re a vivid example of life on the edge. Unlike whales and other ocean mammals, sea otters have no blubber. Yet they're still able to keep warm in the frigid Pacific ...