Photos and videos on social media showed an otter climbing onto a surfboard with a surfer already on it near Victoria, B.C.

Emily O'Rourke, a PhD student at Cardiff University and lead author of the study, told BBC News that otters were a "sentinel" species, revealing "widespread environmental pollution" of British ...

Charlie Hamilton James has been photographing British otters ever since he fell in love with them during their decline some decades ago, and has followed them obsessively as they have made their ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. I write about the ocean, climate change, and the future of our planet. Along the coast of British Columbia, Canada, researchers have been ...

Singapore's famous urban otters have delighted two British otter fans by photobombing their marriage proposal. Jordan Doyle and Mary Lister had gone out otter-watching with a wildlife photographer ...

It is hard to dig a holt in a concrete bank. Those of us who wanted to see British otters had to journey north to Orkney, Shetland or the Highlands. Banning DDT and the gradual improvement in river ...

The Erie Otters will be without Matthew Schaefer longer than expected after the team's star defenseman broke his collarbone ...

At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population of native southern sea otters has eaten so many invasive European green crabs that researchers say the ...

The Erie Otters are benefitting once again from the recent decision to allow Canadian Hockey League talent to play NCAA ...

Research has revealed how British otters may have been able to recover from species loss in the 1950s with the help of otters from Asia. The bottoms of boats and docks can accumulate lots of dirt ...

But to her surprise, Jeppesen learned there was a much simpler way to remove the crabs in the slough she studied: furry and hungry sea otters. Sea otters are rare in most ecosystems after they ...

At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population of native southern sea otters has eaten so many invasive European green crabs that researchers say the ...