The horn shark seemed to escape, but the moment reveals surprising overlap between otter and shark habitats.

Adorably fuzzy sea otters aren’t just cute. The marine mammals serve a crucial role, helping to restore the giant kelp forests they rely on by removing their top predators, the sea urchins. When ...

From kelp forests to sea grass meadows, these charismatic predators are quietly holding parts of the coast together.

A community of students, faculty, staff, and graduates committed to the greater good. The bold experiment of UCSC’s heritage lives today in its environmental and social leadership and in its ...

On a blue-sky afternoon, kayakers paddle past dozens of sea lions lolling in the sun and make a beeline toward the sea otters lounging on beds of eel grass at Elkhorn Slough on California’s central ...

After a decade of steady recovery, the southern sea otter–a federally listed threatened species–is in decline for the second year in a row, according to the latest population survey by U.S. Geological ...

A sea otter floats on its back. Communities in Southeast Alaska are ramping up calls on the federal government to better manage the region’s booming sea otter population and its impacts on key ...