The Marine Mammal Center rescued an ailing sea otter from Morro Bay on Tuesday, but it was too sick to survive. The nonprofit started receiving calls about a young adult southern sea otter on Monday, ...

Sea Otter Reunion This Aug. 2025 photo provided by The Marine Mammal Center shows a southern sea otter swimming in Morro Bay, Calif. (Brian Simuro/The Marine Mammal Center via AP) (Brian Simuro/AP) ...

Otters are one of the most universally adored animals on this planet. Whether you found out about them at an aquarium, through Finding Dory, or when Travis Kelce mentioned wanting to rescue one, you ...

It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public hotline: there were distressed cries coming from the frigid waters in Morro ...

An orphaned sea otter that made headlines after she was rescued from a California beach and nursed back to health at the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago has died, aquarium officials said. The Shedd Aquarium ...

MONTEREY — On-call staff members at the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s sea otter rescue and conservation program rescued a six-month-old otter stranded on San Carlos Beach in July. She was emaciated and ...

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Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center ...