UC Santa Cruz researchers are monitoring sea otters at Elkhorn Slough for potential impacts from the Moss Landing battery plant fire.Sea otters are a threatened species under the Endangered Species ...

One of the most invasive species in the marine environment.” Researchers make astonishing discovery while studying sea otters ...

Researchers estimate southern sea otters eat up to 120,000 European green crabs per year at the Elkhorn Slough National ...

A new study shows that hungry sea otters are keeping Monterey Bay’s green crab population in check, one bite at a time.

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

As invasive green crabs wreak havoc on California's estuaries, a new study has found that a restored sea otter population ...

ELKHORN SLOUGH — Although sea otters are an unofficial mascot of the Monterey Bay area and popular among tourists and locals alike, they are also described by scientists as voracious predators ...

At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population of native southern sea otters has eaten so many invasive European green crabs that researchers say the ...

She believes it was the return of native sea otters, in greater numbers. "Given that the of population size is about 100 and 120 currently in Elkhorn Slough, they can probably eat somewhere ...

But to her surprise, Jeppesen learned there was a much simpler way to remove the crabs in the slough she studied: furry and hungry sea otters. Sea otters are rare in most ecosystems after they ...

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