Few complete skeletons remain of this gentle behemoth, who was destroyed by explorers and fur traders in the Arctic.

Encounter an octopus, penguins, turtles, eels, sharks and otters; The new aquarium opened in October 2025. You can even feed ...

Whether in an aquarium or the wild, the Great Pacific octopus is a solitary creature with a short lifespan of three to five ...

Judge Rules against National Guard Deployment: A federal judge ruled Thursday that Trump and the Defense Department illegally ...

A new sea otter, Ruby, is settling in this week at the Seattle Aquarium. Catch up quick: Ruby was stranded and rescued as a ...

For Ohio’s ‘snot otters’ to have a lasting future in the state, he says there needs to be a focus on protecting and restoring ...

SEATTLE — The Seattle Aquarium has a new resident making a splash. Ruby, a southern sea otter from Monterey Bay Aquarium, ...

Kevin and Chloe, two southern sea otters, arrived at the Cincinnati Zoo on Nov. 17, and have since made Sea Otter Coast their ...

This summer’s release was the latest step in a years-long effort that began in 2012. Over the past decade, the Columbus Zoo ...

Otters have become a real issue for private lakes in the UK — and I’ve seen the damage firsthand. After losing some fish, I decided to take action and build a proper perimeter fence around the lake to ...

Eastern hellbenders are known as "snot otters" because they're covered in a slimy, protective coating. Grahm S. Jones / Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Eastern hellbenders (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis) are ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako arrived in Mie Prefecture, western Japan, on Saturday to attend the 44th National Convention for the Development of an Abundantly Productive Sea. Seeing a ...