SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Just three years after she was found covered in oil and near death, a California sea otter called Olive is a new mom — another milestone for the first otter to survive an oiling ...

(The Hill) — An unusually virulent type of toxoplasmosis is killing California sea otters — and may pose an eventual public health threat to other marine animals and to humans, a new study has found.

The rocky coves along California’s coast are home to one of nature’s most charismatic animals: the otter. Large groups of sea ...

CHICAGO -- Luna, the sea otter pup rescued off the coast of California in 2014, is celebrating Sea Otter Awareness Week from Sept. 20 - 26 at the Shedd Aquarium as she nears her first birthday. She is ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Southern sea otter pup Bennett is getting ready for his debut at SeaWorld San Diego just a few months after being rescued as a newborn from a central California beach. Bennett ...

It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public hotline: there were distressed cries coming from the frigid waters in Morro ...

After a decade of steady recovery, the southern sea otter–a federally listed threatened species–is in decline for the second year in a row, according to the latest population survey by U.S. Geological ...