Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Alaska has some absolutely incredible animals, but is there a more adorable animal than an otter? They're like charming little ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game estimates the state’s current sea otter population at around 70,000 — mostly concentrated in the south-central waters around Cook Inlet and Prince William Sound, ...

Only very lucky people like Alaska native @lexihilli spot a baby sea otter in the wild, and now her reaction is going viral for all the right reasons. She could hardly contain her excitement as a mama ...

ANCHORAGE - Sea otters that live from southwestern Cook Inlet to the tip of Alaska's Aleutian Chain will now get more federal protection and a biological investigation into why their population has ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Sea otters used to frolic and feed in reefs near Cold Bay just off the western end of the Alaska Peninsula. No more. "That place used to be lousy with sea otters," said Douglas ...

Federal officials yesterday designated the southwest Alaska sea otter -- a species that teetered on the edge of extinction in the late 1800s -- as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, alarmed ...

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 ...

Scientists show that wolves that are eating sea otters in Alaska have much higher concentrations of mercury than those eating other prey such as deer and moose. In late 2020, a female coastal wolf ...

Some coastal wolves in Alaska, U.S., have toxic levels of mercury in their bodies after shifting from a terrestrial diet of deer and moose to a marine diet heavy with sea otters, new research finds.

Alaska has some absolutely incredible animals, but is there a more adorable animal than an otter? They’re like charming little stuffed animals floating along in the river and giving hugs to each other ...