As Minnesotans pull fish houses off melting lakes, keep an eye peeled for one of the state’s estimated 12,000 river otters. As ice thins, they scamper across it to find or make their own holes. Agile ...

Recent visitors to Crystal’s Bassett Creek Park were treated to a special sight, as a family of river otters played in the park’s large pond. In a Facebook post, the city of Crystal writes the otters ...

CLITHERALL, MINN. - As the only Minnesota county named after a fur-bearing mammal, Otter Tail County’s marketing campaigns pretty much write themselves. “Find your inner otter!” invites the Otter Tail ...

What started in a fishbowl is ending up in Twin Cities lakes, especially In Edina's Lake Cornelia, where thousands of goldfish are being discovered and removed by groups like Nine Mile Creek Watershed ...

Otter births at Seneca Park Zoo spark hope as federal wildlife protections face major setbacks. Seneca Park Zoo welcomed its first-ever North American river otter births—a local conservation milestone ...

WEBVTT ANIMALS FORCED TO EXPAND THEIR RANGE..ARE SHOWING UP IN SOME UN-EXPECTED PLACES. ONE IS A PLAYFUL MEMBER OF THE WEASEL FAMILY.. TURNING UP IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. NEWS 8 NATURALIST JACK ...

I was on the banks of the Clearwater River, holding a spey rod. In the river, maybe 20 feet away and staring me down with their beady little eyes, were three river otters. Somebody was going to have ...

Three North American river otters play in the snow on the docks of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. Detected with SERC’s night-vision wildlife cameras. North American river otters have ...

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. Kristen Goodhue A North ...

What started in a fishbowl is ending up in Twin Cities lakes, especially In Edina's Lake Cornelia, where thousands of goldfish are being discovered and removed by groups like Nine Mile Creek Watershed ...