If you’ve ever seen a picture or video of sea otters floating on their backs, holding hands as they snooze, you’ve probably ...

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 ...

"Sea otters," says marine biologist Jim Bodkin ... Alaska Expedition Retraced could well see otter groups, called "rafts," resting on the surface in protected bays or inlets along the Alaskan ...

researchers have been able to document the impacts of sea otters on the ocean environment as their populations recover and move north (in what the researchers call "rafts of foraging otters").