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 ...

CHICAGO (AP) — An 8-week-old arrival from Alaska chirps loudly before devouring ice chips in the nursery at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium. He is Pup EL2306 — proper name to be determined — a ...

The workshop was hosted by the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. (Photo by Angela Denning/CoastAlaska) For years, the regulations about who could hunt sea otters in ...

The Alaska SeaLife Center on Nov. 16 admitted to their Wildlife Response Program a juvenile northern sea otter with ...

The young otter, with extensive facial injuries, was rescued from a sheltered apartment-complex hallway blocks from the water ...

Sea otters were once common around the North Pacific but were eradicated from southeast Alaska by about A.D. 1830 due to the commercial fur trade. In the 1960s, sea otters were re-introduced to ...

Sadly that thick, resplendent coat has also given otters some of the world's most valuable pelts. In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between ...

The Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward is caring for a badly injured sea otter. Alaska Peace Officers Association Food Drive ...

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 ...