A sea otter enjoyed whirling around her new habitat at the Cincinnati Zoo on Wednesday, November 19, after the zoo welcomed ...

Few complete skeletons remain of this gentle behemoth, who was destroyed by explorers and fur traders in the Arctic.

On a recent trip near Tofino a "big highlight" ended up not being any of the ocean giants, but rather a raft of otters.

SEATTLE — The Seattle Aquarium has a new resident making a splash. Ruby, a southern sea otter from Monterey Bay Aquarium, ...

A new sea otter, Ruby, is settling in this week at the Seattle Aquarium. Catch up quick: Ruby was stranded and rescued as a ...

The 2025 Life Time Grand Prix kicked off with Thursday's 2025 Sea Otter Classic Gravel Race. The 90-mile gravel race replaced the Fuego XL mountain bike race that the Grand Prix used last year. In the ...

The entire body of a sea urchin is what researchers are now calling an “all-body brain,” with neurons that function as a ...

They are members of the phylum Echinodermata, which first appeared during the Cambrian explosion. Their list of close relatives includes starfish, sand dollars (themselves irregular, flattened sea ...

Wondrous kelp beds harbor a complex ecosystem that’s teeming with life, cleaning the water and the atmosphere, and bringing ...

Using a Bluetooth speaker, a recording of its cries and a small boat, staff and volunteers from The Marine Mammal Center were ...

Kelp once formed “underwater rainforests” on the California coast, but these fragile ecosystems have largely disappeared. At a marine lab near the Bay Area, scientists are trying to bring them back.

The Marine Mammal Center has rescued a sea otter pup in Morro Bay, California, after it was separated from its mother. Hours ...