Adorably fuzzy sea otters aren’t just cute. The marine mammals serve a crucial role, helping to restore the giant kelp ...

When sea otters were reintroduced along the coastlines of islands in Southern California and British Columbia, researchers ...

Sea otters help kelp forests recover by controlling sea urchins, but their impact varies. In British Columbia, recovery was ...

A new study sheds light on the power of keystone species, which could help ecologists in other environments. View on euronews ...

Bacteria and other single-celled microorganisms in the seas around Antarctica are strongly influenced by water temperature ...

An invasive species of crab was threatening an entire ecosystem in Monterey ... The sneaky snackers? Sea otters. Once nearly wiped out by the fur trade, these playful predators had made a sudden ...

The work will also include studies such as a Fisheries Economic Impact Assessment ... in near shore ecosystem health and there’s all sorts of side benefits to sea otter reintroduction and ...

sea otters in California didn't have as strong of an effect on sea urchins as they did up north because of the complex web interactions that took place in the Canadian ecosystem. "Almost all ...