Southwest Alaska’s sea otters, which have undergone dramatic and mysterious declines in recent years, will receive Endangered Species Act protection under an Interior Department proposal announced ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Northern sea otters, once hunted to the brink of extinction along Alaska’s Panhandle, have made a spectacular comeback by gobbling some of the state’s finest seafood — and ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Northern sea otters, once hunted to the brink of extinction along Alaska’s Panhandle, have made a spectacular comeback by gobbling some of the state’s finest seafood — and ...

Alaska is one of the few places with a legal sea otter fur trade. The species is listed as endangered in some areas, but in Southeast Alaska they’re booming. As part of CoastAlaska’s “Alaska Made” ...

CHICAGO (AP) — An 8-week-old arrival from Alaska chirps loudly before devouring ice chips in the nursery at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium. He is Pup EL2306 — proper name to be determined — a northern sea ...

Residents of Alaska's largest city often contend with bears and moose, but state officials are warning of another wild animal that has been causing problems: river otters. The Alaska Department of ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - In addition to dealing with international shipping and the occasional Orca whale, sea-otters around Akun Island, Alaska soon may have to deal with construction of an air and ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. For more than a decade, researchers on a ...

A sea otter pup has gotten to the "otter" side of a scary situation — and his new home is celebrating his recent arrival. On Thursday, Chicago's Shedd Aquarium announced a new addition to its ...

River otters have attacked a child, a woman, and at least two dogs this month, Alaska authorities said. A child was chased and bitten by a group of four otters on Sept. 1, the Alaska Department of ...

ANCHORAGE - Sea otters that live from southwestern Cook Inlet to the tip of Alaska's Aleutian Chain will now get more federal protection and a biological investigation into why their population has ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game shared that a group of river otters has attacked two humans and two dogs in the Anchorage area Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...