A sea otter feeding in Glacier Bay, Alaska photographed by scientist Jim Bodkin. Click image for a larger view. Ironically, it is the otter's fur that brought the animal to the brink of extinction.

Sadly that thick, resplendent coat has also given otters some of the world's most valuable pelts. In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between ...

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 ...

SUAMICO, Wis. ( WBAY /Gray News) - One of the two otters that escaped their habitat during a winter storm is back in the ...

Others, including sea otters, were reintroduced to Southeast Alaska in the 1960s and have rebounded to the point that they are depleting wild stocks of shellfish that local communities depend on.

Kunik the sea otter is celebrating nine years since being rescued near Homer, Alaska, and starting a new life at the Vancouver Aquarium.

SUAMICO, Wis. ( WBAY /Gray) - A zoo in Wisconsin is searching for river otters who escaped from their enclosure during a ...