In a case now before the Minnesota Court of Appeals, counties including Becker, Clay, Otter Tail, Wadena and Todd, argue that the law puts them in a legal bind.

Three North American river otter pups born at the Seneca Park Zoo will soon be moved to other facilities as part of a ...

A social media post made on Saturday, February 21 celebrating the sighting of an otter in a Saltaire canal sparked strong responses among commenters. While some were pleased to see an otter back in ...

Giant otters are often mistaken for harmless river mammals, but in reality they are highly aggressive predators capable of confronting animals built to kill. Working as coordinated family groups, they ...

For 40 years, scientists have been monitoring the Neotropical otter (Lontra longicaudis) along the southern coast of Brazil. A study published in Estuarine Management and Technologies reveals that ...

PENSACOLA, Fla. (WALA) - Pensacola police brought in an extraordinary search tool Tuesday as they intensified their search for a missing woman, a specially trained otter named Splash. Officers said ...

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Southern sea otters living along California’s coast are struggling in warmer seas, with new threats and changing food sources. They, like the other two sea otter subspecies, are classified as ...

"It’s stimulating for them, and they need that," yoga instructor Trish Sextella said of the otters WKYC Westmeister Farm in Shelby, Ohio, is offering a gentle, slow-flow yoga class with the farm’s ...

Zoo visitors can now say, "Hello!" to sea otters for the very first time at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden. Kevin and Chloe, two southern sea otters, arrived at the Cincinnati Zoo on Nov. 17, ...

(AP) — 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 ...

MONTEREY — On-call staff members at the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s sea otter rescue and conservation program rescued a six-month-old otter stranded on San Carlos Beach in July. She was emaciated and ...