Like cats, sea otters spend considerable time licking and biting their fur to keep it clean and conditioned. Also like cats, they rub their faces and hard-to-reach places with their paws.

Like other species in the otter family, these little creatures have slender, streamlined bodies. They are covered in dark brown fur, often with a lighter patch along their faces and bellies.

We hadn't seen this cute critter in almost two centuries and believed it was extinct, until a lone baby randomly showed up.

The Long Island Aquarium is offering the public a chance to name an adorable batch of siblings, two pairs of boy and girl North American river otters, for a very touching reason. “We picked 4 ...

The Erie Otters denied the Saginaw Spirit a three-game comeback to win the teams' Ontario Hockey League playoff series. They did so with another kind of rally during Saturday's fifth game at ...

There was also a stuffed otter on top of a cabinet. I had always wondered about otter fur: was it soft, harsh or waxy? Or a combination? I walked over quietly and reached up to stroke it ...

A prominent Mowachaht man and brother to a Mowachaht chief would even cross the Pacific and live in China around that time to take part in the growing trans-Pacific otter-fur trade, which was one ...

The Long Island Aquarium is seeking the public’s help deciding the names of four otter pups. The new generation of otters were born in February. They comprise of two males and two females.