Otters have become increasingly popular as pets in Japan, but researchers say the growing trend comes at a cost. The soaring demand for the animals is raising concerns about illegal poaching and ...

Sea otters are North America’s smallest marine mammal, weighing just 30 to 100 pounds, but their appetites are huge. They burn calories at three times the rate expected for their size, chomping on ...

A t-shirt Taylor Swift wore in her album release movie has officially helped raise $2 million for sea otters conservation.

Three Asian small-clawed otter pups were born at the Virginia Zoo at the end of August, the Zoo said in a release.

The Virginia Zoo announced this week the birth of three Asian small-clawed otter pups to a fledgling family of the vulnerable species at the zoo’s facilities. The trio of babies, which are all male, ...

The aquarium reprinted the 1993 shirt Swift wore in her Life of a Showgirl film as part of a fundraiser for its Sea Otter ...

The more prolonged the exposure of sea otters and their offspring are to human activities, the higher the likelihood that ...

The sea mammal was not identified as Otter 841, who was photographed stealing a board and even riding a wave in 2023.

NORFOLK, Va. — Brand new babies have arrived at the Virginia Zoo!