Why do sea otters hold hands? As you’ll see in this video, it is actually a rather clever sea otter survival strategy!

Using only fins, divers wild-harvest abalone off eastern Australia’s coast. The marine snail, known for its beautiful ...

“The bull kelp forest ... the sea urchin population. Elsewhere, indigenous-led non-profit Elakha Alliance is conducting scientific studies to assess the feasibility of reintroducing sea otters ...

The push to reintroduce southern sea otters to greater sections of the California and Oregon coast is getting a big boost from a $1.56 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, ...

more than 95% of Northern California’s bull kelp forests have been destroyed — a result of numerous ongoing challenges, including rising ocean temperatures and an explosion in the sea urchin ...

Sea otters are keystone species in kelp forests. Kelp forests rely on the top-down pressure sea otters exert via predation on sea urchins. By controlling the sea urchin population, they help manage ...

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Sea urchins in turn eat the kelp that grows in the ocean. If there aren’t enough sea otters to keep the sea urchins in check, they will multiply and munch on the ocean’s kelp forests. Kelp is critical ...

That gap can hinder policymakers’ ability to assess how their decisions affect people—for example, through access to the plants and animals some communities eat ... because otters prey on urchins that ...