Rocket and Slinky, two adorable and rather mischievous Asian small-clawed otters, just celebrated their second birthday at ...

Watch these baby otters take their very first swim in their brand new home! Full of splashes, wobbles, and cuteness overload, ...

All it takes to figure out how dependent we’ve become on electronic gadgets is a power outage that lasts longer than an hour or ...

Sea Otter. Mike Baird from Morro Bay, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Along the rugged coastlines of the North ...

Both the Pikachu protester and the viral Studio Ghibli-esque animations demonstrate the global appeal of cuteness. But to me, there’s more to cute than its ability to go viral. Pikachu ...

Legend has it the Eastern hellbenders slithered here straight from hell and But in the age of humans, that evolutionary asset ...

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Along the rugged coastlines of the North Pacific Ocean, a remarkable ecological story is unfolding. Sea otters, those charismatic marine mammals known for floating on their backs and using tools, are ...

Or it may be a beaver.River otters were re-introduced to Western New York in the late 1990s after they disappeared due to over-trapping and environmental pollution. Now, research by the New York ...

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If you've ever dreamed of bringing home your very own cuddly forest spirit, then the Izu Teddy Bear Museum in Shizuoka, Japan should be on your itinerary! The museum offers a delightful two-part ...