By Christine Heinrichs The sea otter pup was tiny, probably less than 2 weeks old, alone in Morro Bay on an October morning ...

Chirps also mean the same thing for pups, "Otter pups also produce chirping sounds while engaging in playful activities.

Gena Bentall paddled her kayak deep into Elkhorn Slough on the lookout for the flip of a tail or the bob of a head. About a mile in, sea otters bobbed in the water everywhere. Some dove under the ...

Chanel Hason gets a lot of false reports of sea otters on the Oregon Coast. "I get email several times a month of someone saying they saw a sea otter running along the beach in Oregon somewhere,” said ...

The young otter has injuries to his eye, nose and face, including a fractured nasal bone. (Courtesy Alaska SeaLife Center) An injured sea otter found stranded in Seward last month is under the care of ...

SANTA CRUZ — When a colleague passed the photo along to sea otter expert Gena Bentall, she thought it was fake. “The first thing I said was ‘That is 100% AI (artificial intelligence),’” Bentall said ...

OTTER THAT WAS MAKING HEADLINES A COUPLE YEARS AGO, ALSO FOR STEALING SURFBOARDS...### ISABELLA ORDUNA WENT OUT TO CATCH SOME WAVES TUESDAY EVENING AT STEAMER LANE... ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR SURF ...

SANTA CRUZ — When a colleague passed the photo along to sea otter expert Gena Bentall, she thought it was fake. “The first thing I said was ‘That is 100% AI (artificial intelligence),” Bentall said ...

A sea otter mother was given a touching reunion with her pup in the waters off Morro Bay thanks to a local nonprofit. On Oct. 20, The Marine Mammal Center’s San Luis Obispo team spotted a sea otter ...

Ecologists have long observed that when food becomes scarce, animal populations exploit a wider range of food sources. So scientists studying southern sea otters at different sites in California’s ...