“Sea otters are the assistant managers of the slough in helping us keep invaders in check,” Jeppesen, who now works for the reserve, told The Washington Post. Green crabs became a major threat ...

Sea otter mamas are parenting on hard mode. They give birth in the water, to blind, helpless infants who have to be carried ...

Sea otters were also reintroduced in the early 1970s to Washington’s Olympic Peninsula and Southeast Alaska where, unlike in Oregon, they have thrived. There are now about 30,000 sea otters in ...

Northern sea otters live along the coasts of Washington and Alaska. Russian sea otters live in the waters off Japan and Russia. Sea otters are mostly aquatic and spend nearly all their lives in ...

RANGE: Sea otters can be found in California, Washington, Canada, Alaska, Russia, and Japan. At one time, otter populations inhabited a contiguous range from Japan around the Pacific coastline down to ...