Sea otters were valued for their soft fur and the cuddly marine mammal once faced extinction.

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 ...

When otters groom their fur, they blow air into their undercoats, forming air pockets that provide more insulation. When the mother sea otter grooms her pup, she also blows air into the pup’s coat.

Otters are incredibly well-spread creatures, inhabiting almost every continent in the world. In North America, the North American river otter, the sea otter, and the Alaska sea otter can all be found.

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 ...

SAVING THE SEA OTTER Unlike most marine mammals, sea otters are primarily insulated by fur, not blubber. In fact they have the densest fur in the animal kingdom. Sadly that thick, resplendent coat has ...

Sea Otter Conservation Once, sea otters were hunted nearly to extinction due to their thick fur coats, which were prized for their dense, water-resistant properties.

Sea otters depend on their fur for buoyancy and warmth. Now researchers in California, USA, have discovered that pollution from the oil industry threatens sea otters when crude oil soaks into ...

The international Fur Seal Treaty of 1911 protected the species and they have rebounded in some areas along the Pacific coast — especially in Alaska which has over 90,000 otters.

It’s Sea Otter Awareness Week, which has been recognized for more than two decades. It started as a way to inform people about the vital role these animals play in coastal marine ecosystems.

Because it’s so thick, sea otter fur is warm and waterproof. It’s also super-soft, which has made the animals prized targets for fur trappers.