The otters - known as the 'teddy bears of the ocean' - face a 5,000 mile journey over land and air to get from Alaska to the Birmingham where they will finally settle at the National Sea Life Centre.

Sea otters rely on kelp in the ocean to provide shelter and sustenance. The marine mammals also help to restore kelp forests, controlling populations of sea urchins that devour the algae.

An otter superfan has had her decade-long dream come true when she took a trip to meet the only sea otters in the UK. Mary Heathcote, 70, has been a self-confessed "otter-holic" for over 60 years ...

A pair of rare Alaskan sea otters are getting settled into their new home in a UK first, as part of a conservation project to boost awareness. The rescue pair, who were orphaned, are being transported ...

Sea otters were hunted to the brink in the 19th Century fur trade, but their numbers have been slowly recovering since. The return of these playful creatures doesn't just transform their ...

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Thanks to an abundance of prey (including an increase in mussels as well as urchins), the sea otter population increased substantially after 2014, from about 270 to about 432 sea otters in the ...

Sea otter populations crashed during the fur trade, ... UK. Hannah joined Newsweek in 2017 from IBTimes UK. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths University and King's College London.

A pair of rare Alaskan sea otters are getting settled into their new home in a UK first, as part of a conservation project to boost awareness. The rescue pair, who were orphaned, are being ...