Most people who witness a sea otter giving birth work in animal care or rehabilitation, but one lucky woman got the surprise ...

Santa Cruz locals and social media users alike love her like no otter.

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 ...

Rey is teaching Sunny, about two weeks old, all her adopted baby needs to know to fend for herself ...

It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public hotline: there were distressed cries coming from the frigid waters in Morro ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (The Hill) — An unusually virulent type of ...

Gena Bentall paddled her kayak deep into Elkhorn Slough on the lookout for the flip of a tail or the bob of a head. About a mile in, sea otters bobbed in the water everywhere. Some dove under the ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. -- Surfers heading to Santa Cruz, California will have to keep a look out for a furry surfboard thief. A surfer at Steamer Lane says a sea otter bit her foot and then climbed onto ...

The last confirmed sighting of the marine mammal in question, known as Otter 841, was in May 2024. However, surfers reported multiple otter-related incidents in October 2025 and some suspect Otter 841 ...

(The Hill) — An unusually virulent type of toxoplasmosis is killing California sea otters — and may pose an eventual public health threat to other marine animals and to humans, a new study has found.