This story appears in the February 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine. I am hunting otters with Charlie, the two of us in wet suits, our bodies submerged, level with the sea. The tankers ...

A zoology student at UVU uses a grant from National Geographic to raise awareness for sea otters. Watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 ...

Some can be found floating in freshwater rivers and lakes, while others swim across the Pacific Ocean, according to National Geographic ... Meanwhile, sea otters may snack on crabs, snails ...

sea otters, humpback whales, and its most celebrated resident, the rare, cream-colored Kermode bear, or sprit bear, considered sacred by the T'simshian people. (Spotting a spirit bear takes a lot ...

Researchers estimate southern sea otters eat up to 120,000 European green crabs per year at the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve Sarah Kuta Daily Correspondent Southern sea ...

Do you think most people would be surprised to learn that whales can make a ‘net’ out of bubbles? Sea otters have the densest fur coat in the animal kingdom—about 140,000 hairs per square centimetre.