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.

Naturalist Stan Tekiela explores the enduring charm, biology, and resilience of sea otters during a recent photo tour in ...

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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

By Stan Tekiela For whatever reason, some wild animals are near and dear to people’s hearts. They have a universal appeal, ...

FAILED REINTRODUCTION Sea otters were once abundant on the West Coast, from Baja California up through Alaska. They co-existed for millennia with Indigenous people who saw them as respected kin ...

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