Otters are well loved for a variety of reasons, including their adorable personalities and affinity for holding hands. But ...

Just by eating sea urchins and destructive shellfish, sea otters are keeping kelp forests healthy and coastal erosion at bay.

Depending on its habitat, the diet of an otter can vary. What do otters eat? Otters are carnivores, so their diets primarily consist of meat. What type of meat depends on what's available.

Some otters rely on tools to bust open hard-shelled prey items like snails, and a new study suggests this tool use is helping them to survive as their favorite, easier-to-eat foods disappear.

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

West Coast sea otters are turning to tool use to exploit richer prey and get a leg up on the competition, a new study has found. In Monterey Bay, an incredible rebound in sea otter populations has ...

What do otters eat? Otters are carnivores, so their diets primarily consist of meat. What type of meat depends on what's available.

Otters need to eat a lot "Otters have the highest mass specific metabolic rate of any marine mammal," says Barrett. This means they burn through calories very quickly (unlike humans!) and have big ...

Where California sea otters go, coastal erosion rates slow Elkhorn Slough is ‘like an open buffet’ where otters eat burrowing crabs like popcorn ...

Sea otters eat more than just urchins. They also eat crabs which, in California’s Elkhorn Slough estuary, were shown to contribute to the slowing of bank erosion by 69%. Researchers at the ...

West coast states are spending millions to protect their inland waterways from invasive crabs. In some places, otters are just eating them.

Among the shellfish sea otters eat, for instance, are urchins. Urchins eat kelp, so without the otters around to hold their numbers down, grazing urchins can take down whole forests of kelp.