Scientific name: Lontra canadensis River otters display several adaptations ... notes National Geographic. University of Michigan documents note that their physical adaptations enable them to ...

The waters in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan freeze over fast in winter–and river otters need to work just as fast to keep holes open in the ice. If they close, the otters lose access to fish.

The Michigan Department of Natural Resources made an announcement in the beginning of January sharing the amount of total ...

With support from an AWI Christine Stevens Wildlife Award, a novel and noninvasive method for sampling river otters using DNA collected from otter tracks left in the snow was tested in the western ...