Otters don't have a blubber layer like most marine mammals, it's the fur that keeps them warm and allows them to live in Alaskan waters." A sea otter feeding in Glacier Bay, Alaska photographed by ...

Sea otters are keystone species in kelp forests. Kelp forests rely on the top-down pressure sea otters exert via predation on ...

Once hunted to the brink of extinction, sea otters have recolonized Glacier Bay National Park with a vengeance. Several times each July, when the weather over southeast Alaska’s Glacier Bay National ...

This was on full display last week while I was leading a photographic tour of bald eagles and sea otters in Alaska.

While working on remote Alaskan islands, he found where sea otters were absent, sea urchin populations mushroomed, overtaking kelp forests. He concluded the small mammals were integral to ...

In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...

fur seal and sea otter pelts they brought showed this land to be a fur trader's paradise. Russian documents from the time indicate that Bering's explorations of Alaska were not made for the purely ...