The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States, and it houses over 3,600 plant and animal species. The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center has numerous initiatives to study the ...

There are 13 otter species, ranging from the small-clawed otter to the giant otter. They are all of which are semiaquatic, aquatic or marine. Otters are the only member of the weasel family that are ...

Six million years ago, a hundred-pound otter was on the prowl somewhere in the swampy wetlands of what’s now southwestern China. Unlike today’s playful sea otters, which use stones to smash open ...

ROYAL OAK (WWJ) - Life's a beach for otters at the Detroit Zoo. The zoo's North American river otters recently moved into a new expanded habitat, which has more than tripled in size -- increasing from ...