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

A new study shows that hungry sea otters are keeping Monterey Bay’s green crab population in check, one bite at a time.

When the $3.9 billion Everglades Agricultural Area Reservoir Project is complete, a reservoir and wetland will store and clean polluted water from Lake Okeechobee in Central Florida before it’s ...

An invasive species had taken over ecosystems across the West Coast and was threatening to dominate another in Monterey County, California, when ecologist Rikke Jeppesen began her research two decades ...

Researchers estimate southern sea otters eat up to 120,000 European green crabs per year at the Elkhorn Slough National ...

Sea otters are a rare species as humans excessively hunted them in the 18th and 19th Century. They were mainly hunted for their thick, soft fur ...

Southern sea otters were nearly hunted to extinction in the 19th century for their furs, only gaining a measure of protection ...

In California, southern sea otters have become unexpected defenders against invasive green crabs, which were originally ...

But to her surprise, Jeppesen learned there was a much simpler way to remove the crabs in the slough she studied: furry and hungry sea otters. Sea otters are rare in most ecosystems after they ...

SAN FRANCISCO – A California ecosystem has gotten a big boost from an adorable, fluffy and hungry friend. At Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve, a newly-reinvigorated population ...