Southwest Alaska’s sea otters, which have undergone dramatic and mysterious declines in recent years, will receive Endangered Species Act protection under an Interior Department proposal announced ...

SEWARD — After a two-year die-off of Alaska sea otters, the world's aquariums have no more room for orphaned pups. Surplus otter babies have been euthanized or left to die. The Alaska SeaLife Center ...

Roarke Brown, a charter boat captain since 1972 in this picturesque fishing village, remembers being able to tread out onto ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Northern sea otters, once hunted to the brink of extinction along Alaska’s Panhandle, have made a spectacular comeback by gobbling some of the state’s finest seafood — and ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Northern sea otters, once hunted to the brink of extinction along Alaska’s Panhandle, have made a spectacular comeback by gobbling some of the state’s finest seafood — and ...

Alaska’s wolves are turning to the ocean for food, hunting sea otters and revealing how ecosystems overlap at the coast.

Residents of Alaska's largest city often contend with bears and moose, but state officials are warning of another wild animal that has been causing problems: river otters. The Alaska Department of ...

"Sea otters," says marine biologist Jim Bodkin, " have absolutely the finest fur in the animal kingdom. If you've ever held one in your hands, you would know why. They have an incredibly dense and ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - In addition to dealing with international shipping and the occasional Orca whale, sea-otters around Akun Island, Alaska soon may have to deal with construction of an air and ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game shared that a group of river otters has attacked two humans and two dogs in the Anchorage area Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at ...

Otters are notoriously cute animals… until they attack your Labradoodle and pull her under the water. Such is the behavior of some decidedly not cute Alaskan otters, who may possibly be afflicted with ...

ANCHORAGE - Sea otters that live from southwestern Cook Inlet to the tip of Alaska's Aleutian Chain will now get more federal protection and a biological investigation into why their population has ...