The return of sea otters and their voracious appetites has helped rescue a section of California marshland, a new study shows. Sea otters eat constantly, and one of their favorite snacks is the ...
The return of sea otters and their voracious appetites has helped rescue a section of California marshland, a new study shows. Sea otters eat constantly and one of their favorite snacks is the striped ...
MONTEREY, California (KGO) — When we first met the hungry otters of Elkhorn Slough last year, they were chowing down on a species of burrowing crabs blamed for destabilizing the shoreline. Thinning ...
An invasive species had taken over ecosystems across the West Coast and was threatening to dominate another one in Monterey County, California, when ecologist Rikke Jeppesen began her research two ...
Sea otters eat more than just urchins. They also eat crabs which, in California’s Elkhorn Slough estuary, were shown to contribute to the slowing of bank erosion by 69%. Researchers at the Nicholas ...