A Florida sheriff's office is diving into a new kind of innovation — literally. Meet Splash, a 2-year-old otter trained to assist the Martin County Sheriff's Office in search and rescue missions by ...

Two rescued otter pups were rehabilitated at the Florida Wildlife Hospital. The otters learned to swim, hunt, and eat solid food before being released. The Florida Wildlife Hospital is experiencing ...

SANTA CRUZ — When a colleague passed the photo along to sea otter expert Gena Bentall, she thought it was fake. “The first thing I said was ‘That is 100% AI (artificial intelligence),” Bentall said ...

You might think river otters would be deathly afraid of alligators. After all, alligators do prey on otters. However, would you believe that sometimes it’s the other way around? A video taken in ...

On a blue-sky afternoon, kayakers paddle past dozens of sea lions lolling in the sun and make a beeline toward the sea otters lounging on beds of eel grass at Elkhorn Slough on California’s central ...