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May 26, 2021 — Solitary river otters in Brazil use a rich repertoire of vocalizations during play and conflict, according to a new ...
June 7, 2022 — Otters learn skills from each other -- but they also solve some mysteries alone, new research ...
Sep. 16, 2021 — Researchers have discovered a previously unknown species of otter from 11.4-million-year-old strata at the Hammerschmiede fossil ...
Oct. 31, 2023 — Firsthand observations of a wolf hunting and killing a harbor seal and a group of wolves hunting and consuming a sea otter on Alaska's Katmai coast have led scientists to reconsider assumptions ...
Mar. 8, 2021 — Sea otters maintain the balance of kelp forest ecosystems by controlling populations of sea urchins, which are voracious kelp grazers. Since 2014, however, California's kelp forests have ...
Aug. 18, 2021 — A new study confirms that for millennia, Indigenous people managed their relationship with shellfish and sea otters to safeguard their access to shellfish which remain important for food, social, and ...
Mar. 22, 2023 — An unusually severe form of toxoplasmosis killed four sea otters and could pose a threat to other marine wildlife and humans, finds a new ...
Jan. 26, 2021 — Heart disease is a killer threat for southern sea otters feasting on domoic acid in their food web. Climate change projections indicate that toxic blooms and domoic acid exposure will continue to ...
May 9, 2022 — Researchers have examined the mass extinction of large animals over the past tens of thousands of years and found that extinct species had, on average, much smaller brains than species that ...
Nov. 25, 2021 — From 50,000 years to 6,000 years ago, many of the world's largest animals, including such iconic grassland grazers as the woolly mammoth, giant bison, and ancient horses, went extinct. The loss ...
