After training to detect odors under water, the aquatic animal has become a useful tool in the effort to locate missing people. He’s also super cute.

A Florida county sheriff’s office has what they say is the nation's first search and recovery otter for finding bodies underwater. A Wyoming ...

A Florida sheriff's office has enlisted an unlikely new recruit, a 2-year-old otter trained to detect human remains underwater.

When the search in the water gets too difficult, one Florida sheriff's office is enlisting the help of one furry officer.

A sea otter is stealing surfers' boards in Santa Cruz's Steamer Lane. One incident promoted an emergency water rescue by the Santa Cruz Fire Department. The incidents are reminiscent of the surfboard ...

Guests at the SEA LIFE in the United Kingdom are feeling the love. Visitors were totally falling for a sea otter who loves to hold hands with the people who come to visit her. What a sweetie! It would ...

Anyone can pick up a camera and learn the fundamentals of photography, but it takes a special set of skills and circumstances to become a successful wildlife photographer. You have to master the art ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Surfers heading to Santa Cruz, California will have to keep a look out for a furry surfboard thief. A surfer at Steamer Lane says a sea otter bit her foot and then climbed onto ...

Utterly charming, otters are web-footed animals that inhabit rivers and seas around North America, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Pacific. Otters are known to be intelligent and very social aquatic ...