The Fitzhugh name is a part of the city, a ghost on the map that has long outlasted the family who put it there.

An exciting and rare sighting in Kashmir has left conservationists celebrating. According to a report by The Indian Express, ...

There’s a magical spot along California’s Central Coast where a massive rock rises from the sea like nature’s own monument, sea otters float on their backs cracking shellfish, and the crowds that ...

River otters are also survivors that endured the unmitigated fur trapping assaults of earlier times. Today, they can be found from Texas, up the East Coast and across the Great Lakes and most of ...

Once decimated by the fur trade, sea otter populations have rebounded, thanks to conservation efforts including protection under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Overhunting The main reason sea otters are threatened and endangered today is due to overhunting. During the 18th to 19th centuries, hunters heavily pursued sea otters for their thick fur.

Russian, British, and American fur traders sought the luxurious fur of sea otters, their numbers plummeting from around 300,000 to 2,000 by the turn of the 1900s.

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 ...

According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s website, the bay is currently host to about 3,000 otters. Sea otters have the thickest fur of any mammal, with up to one million hairs per square inch.

Sea otters are the only marine mammals with no blubber or layer of fat to survive in cold waters. Instead, they have the densest fur among all mammals (more than 1 million hairs per square inch ...