New Study Offers First Look at Diet and Ecology of River Otters in Chesapeake Bay ...

Abandoned for nearly a decade, North Hollywood’s Valley Plaza shopping center has deteriorated into a hotspot for fires, squatting and criminal activity. Now there is a push for it to be declared a ...

Trail cameras are a vital tool in informing these types of protections. Especially elusive and nocturnal species can be hard to spot, but unobtrusive cameras can generate reliable data without ...

North American river otters eat, play and defecate in the same place. And their unhealthy habits make them ideal for detecting future health threats in the environment.

A new study from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, found that otter poop, or "scat," ...

Regular sightings of otters on a river are a sign of a healthy local ecosystem, a charity has said. The Wear Rivers Trust said evidence of the mammals living on the River Deerness in County Durham ...

River otters in Chesapeake Bay reveal their diet and role in disease control through scat analysis by Maryland scientists.

The presence of parasites in the otter scat could mean that they are important ecosystem engineers. According to Lohan, the otters may be helping the overall prey populations by eating these animals ...

New research on river otter feces in the Chesapeake Bay makes revelations about the animal’s diet and their movements.

In the wilds of South America, one animal strikes fear into the hearts of even the fiercest predators: the Giant Otter, also known as the Brazilian Otter. This remarkable creature is the "evil ...

Conservationists released family of giant river otters in Iberá wetlands, a first-of-its-kind reintroduction for species considered locally extinct for decades.