European green crabs are small, measuring just four inches across. But since they were first introduced in the 1980s, these ...

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

By Tim Didion and Drew Tuma Click here for updates on this story MONTEREY, California (KGO) -- When we first met the hungry otters ...

A recent study found sea otters are eating thousands of green crabs at a California reserve, reducing the invasive species’ ...

Sea otters are a rare species as humans excessively hunted them in the 18th and 19th Century. They were mainly hunted for ...

Southern sea otters were nearly hunted to extinction in the 19th century for their furs, only gaining a measure of protection ...

The end of the calendar year is a popular time to reflect on recent accomplishments. Let’s celebrate a few 2024 wins that ...

Now, biologists have identified a new, furry ally in the fight against European green crabs: sea otters. At the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve in California, hungry southern ...

Green crab abundance was consistently lowest in Elkhorn Slough, the only California estuary with sea otters, the paper published in the journal Biological Invasions found. Healing the ecosystem so ...