Leia, Quincy and their otter family will soon move from the coastal location to the zoo located in the center of the state.

The North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher plans to say goodbye to a beloved otter family at the end of January. Six otters ...

Stella and Fynn, two female North American river otters born in captivity in South Carolina, moved in at Mote Aquarium on Dec ...

An animal charity has asked people to donate their real Christmas trees to create a habitat for otters to play and shelter.

The California researchers said their study proves otters can provide unexpected benefits when returned to their natural habitats. Now when researchers set traps, Jeppesen said, they usually catch ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks to researcher Rikke Jeppesen about her work on how sea otters, which were hunted to almost near extinction, have been able to thrive by eating up to 120,000 crabs a year.

North American river otters, once ubiquitous across the continent, were eradicated on Long Island and in much of their range by the early 19th century — wiped out by the fur trade, habitat ...

The habitat exhibit itself, which opened in 2016 as "Otters and their Waters," offers an educational opportunity on the importance of protecting the watershed, which is land that drains into ...

A recent study found sea otters are eating thousands of green crabs at a California reserve, reducing the invasive species’ population.