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

Sea otters have been missing from the Oregon coast for more than a century, and local non-profit Elakha Alliance is trying to ...

Why do sea otters hold hands? As you’ll see in this video, it is actually a rather clever sea otter survival strategy!

Instead of holding hands, sea otters usually snuggle up together or wrap themselves in a shared blanket of kelp or seagrass. These collective rafts of kelp or seagrass allow the otters to stay ...

Last summer, the Vancouver Aquarium started offering sea otter encounters, and the Straight had the chance to see what it was like to interact a little more closely with the aquarium’s fluffiest ...

Using only fins, divers wild-harvest abalone off eastern Australia’s coast. The marine snail, known for its beautiful iridescent shell but sought for its meat, is a fishery worth more than 150 million ...

For example, when predation by urchins is the most acute problem, oftentimes it’s due to the loss of apex predators, such as sea otters or sea stars, combined with the kelp forest being weakened ...

The Marine Species Report Card features the plight of bull kelp, information about how to contribute to conservation efforts, and more — but it also includes resources about the success stories for ...