Otters don't have a blubber layer like most marine mammals, it's the fur that keeps them warm and allows them to live in Alaskan waters." A sea otter feeding in Glacier Bay, Alaska photographed by ...

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, sea otters have recolonized Glacier Bay National Park with a vengeance. Several times each July, when the weather over southeast Alaska’s Glacier Bay National ...

Sea otters are keystone species in kelp forests. Kelp forests rely on the top-down pressure sea otters exert via predation on ...

In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...

while Northern sea otters are native to the coastal areas of Washington, Western Canada, and Alaska. Finally, Southern sea otters, or California sea otters, are found off the coast of (you guessed ...

This was on full display last week while I was leading a photographic tour of bald eagles and sea otters in Alaska.

Sea otters were once common around the North Pacific but were eradicated from southeast Alaska by about A.D. 1830 due to the commercial fur trade. In the 1960s, sea otters were re-introduced to ...

California sea otters (a.k.a. southern sea otters, distinct from the northern Pacific subspecies found from Washington to Alaska) were nearly wiped out by the turn of the 20th century. An ...

No, not sharks or giant squid — sea otters. “Sea otters,” you might say. “Don’t they hold hands?” They do indeed. But don’t let the cute reputation fool you. Sea otters are ...