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

To meet the adorable tigers, lions, and monkeys, book your tour at the Zoological Wildlife Foundation.

The two North American river otters are Tilly, and her pup, Molalla (nicknamed Mo). In the video, Mo is about nine weeks old, which is just the right age when baby river otters learn to swim.

Paws & Claws Animal Encounters in Bremen opened a new encounters barn, equipped with a heated pool, where people can swim with Asian small-clawed otters.

The Monterey Bay Aquariuim’s Sea Otter Surrogacy Program pairs a rescued otter pup with one of the aquarium’s resident adult female otters, who raises the pup like her own. (Doug Duran/Bay ...

Sea otters were valued for their soft fur and the cuddly marine mammal once faced extinction.

BREMEN — No need to travel to coastal waters to encounter otters or watch them behind a glass barrier at a zoo, you can hop in the water with them right here in Central Ohio. Paws and Claws ...