Imagine an animal so baffling that the world’s best scientists once thought it was a hoax. A beast with the bill of a duck, ...

CHARLOTTE – When the Charlotte Museum of Nature opens in 2026, visitors can look forward to meeting several new residents, including a lively group of otters.

WATCH the moment a otter was spotted by keen-eyed resident swimming along the River Severn. Eleanor Morris spotted the otter with a stick in its mouth swimming up the river from her window. She said: ...

This week, the Animal Health and Animal Science teams performed quick exams of three North American river otter pups so that they could receive distemper vaccinations as well as get microchipped for ...

South Carolina is home to a lot of alligators. Around 100,000 of them, to be exact. Although it is fewer than in some states, ...

Volunteers gathered near Kingman and Heritage Islands on Earth Day 2025 to continue efforts to restore the Anacostia River, once a heavily polluted and overlooked waterway.

The clip first appeared on the r/SanAntonio Reddit page on Saturday after user @your_fellow_lettuce uploaded a video of a woman police identified as Maria Herrera swimming in the river ...

A man drowned on Sunday while swimming at the West Fork Trinity River in northwest Fort Worth, police said. Mahoning Matters A man drowned on Sunday while swimming in the West Fork Trinity River ...

“Otter fur is also very oily which means it repels water as they swim so they don't get soaked.” During the winter, if the ice is thin enough, river otters will break air holes in the ice to ...

Otters Agate and Ore, the Great Lakes Aquarium’s two female North American river otters celebrated their 12th birthday. The aquarium hosts a celebration for the pair every year, where kids can ...

Japan’s obsession with otters may also stem from a deep-rooted cultural memory. The kawauso, or river otter, appears in Japanese folklore as a playful and mischievous shapeshifter. But this creature ...

The North American river otter was seen in San Antonio. The San Antonio River Authority shared the photos on Facebook. Officials captured footage of the otter with trail cameras. "These elusive ...