Otters have been wreaking havoc in a town in Cumbria - one resident showed a naughty otter breaking into his garden and ...

The playful North American river otter is equally at home in the water and on land. It makes its home in a burrow near the water's edge, and can thrive in river, lake, swamp, or estuary ecosystems.

In North America sea otters once ranged from Baja California, Mexico, all the way to Alaska. Between 1741 and 1911, the maritime fur trade fueled voracious large-scale hunting and trapping that ...

Otters are one of the smartest species on the planet. Sometimes they forget they're not humans. We're starting to realize how smart otters really are. They know how to play basketball. They know ...

Unlike its living relatives, which feed on fish and shellfish, the otter may have eaten a wide range of prey. It was capable of crushing big mollusc shells or the bones of birds and rodents ...

Residents in a town that were 'terrorised by fish-eating otters' say they have come back. Several locals who live in ...