In the 20th century, California sea otters — also called southern sea otters — had almost disappeared and were believed extinct until a small group (or “raft”) of them appeared off the coast of Big ...

By holding onto one another, they create a sort of floating raft, making it easier to remain together as a group. Additionally, sea otters are very social animals, and this means that staying ...

Jane Goodall is returning to the Monterey Peninsula to speak at Sunset Center on April 7, during a sold-out lecture on behalf ...

Yet, by the early 1900s, sea otters had been hunted nearly to extinction for their fur. In the 1930s, a raft of some 50 sea otters were discovered off the coast of Big Sur. Margaret Wentworth ...