In 1968, a Minnesota insurance salesman named Ralph Plaisted was sitting in a bar, talking to a friend about snowmobiles. His friend said that if snowmobiles were so great, he should be able to ride ...

Southern sea otters, Suri and Willow, spent two years at Shedd Aquarium preparing to care for otter pups Southern sea otters Suri and Willow returned to California's Aquarium of the Pacific after ...

(KRON) — After weeks of training behind-the-scenes, the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s newest sea otter, Opal, officially joined the sea otter exhibit. Visitors can now see Opal playing with her ...

CHICAGO (WGN) — A new sea otter has moved into the Shedd Aquarium where she will begin training for a very important role. The unnamed two-year-old otter was rescued in Marina, California by ...

Unlike most marine mammals, sea otters are primarily insulated by fur, not blubber. In fact they have the densest fur in the animal kingdom. Sadly that thick, resplendent coat has also given otters ...

Because of their high metabolic rates, sea otters are especially vulnerable to disturbances that can increase their energy needs. New research in The Journal of Wildlife Management reveals how ...

PICTON, ON, May 22, 2025 /CNW/ - Otter Energy, Ontario's leading turnkey solar solutions provider, is marking 16 years of powering Canadian sustainability with ambitious plans to double its ...

Slow builds and yearslong maintenance struggles are hampering plans to put three amphibious ready groups at sea.

FUKUOKA--Only three sea otters remain at aquariums in Japan, and they are now treated like rock stars because of their advancing years. Japan was once home to dozens of the cute mammals.

The PLA has reported a series of helicopter encounters with a foreign military over the East China Sea, with Chinese and foreign aircraft coming as close as 10 metres (33 feet). The ...

The Navy lost a second F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet from an aircraft carrier in the Red Sea on a mission to target Houthi rebels in Yemen, the same day the U.S. announced a ceasefire deal with ...

According to Jamie Fleming, a union leader with Teamsters Local 174, the “nonstop marathon of negotiations” on Thursday and Friday included members of Swissport’s highest levels of ...