It's not every day thousands of teddy bears are catapulted into an ice hockey rink. But Sunday, Jan. 4 was different for Hershey Bears fans during the annual "Teddy Bear Toss" event. The "sweet, ...

Alex Misiak last skated for the Erie Otters on Dec. 13. The native of Slovakia left to compete for his home country in the 2026 IIHF World Junior Championship. There won’t be a welcome-home party, ...

Long before modern species appeared, otters existed that were closer in size to lions than the small mammals known today. This video explores how these massive predators dominated rivers and ...

"It’s stimulating for them, and they need that," yoga instructor Trish Sextella said of the otters WKYC Westmeister Farm in Shelby, Ohio, is offering a gentle, slow-flow yoga class with the farm’s ...

SHELBY, Ohio — When you think of yoga, calm music, gentle stretching or deep breathing might come to mind. But in recent years, animal-themed yoga has surged in popularity, from goats to dogs to cats.

The Cincinnati Zoo is welcoming a new species of otters for the first time.On Tuesday, the zoo announced that Southern sea otters Chloe and Kevin had arrived and can be seen by the public.The ...

It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public hotline: there were distressed cries coming from the frigid waters in Morro ...

Splash the otter was bored. So, he did what any intelligent mammal with dexterous paws would do. He pushed his plastic sleeping crate across the room and up against the door. Splash then hopped onto ...

As surfer-otter run-ins continue, researchers say people, not otters, are responsible. Human development has left Santa Cruz’s sea otters with nowhere to go, forcing them to get comfortable with ...

MONTEREY — On-call staff members at the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s sea otter rescue and conservation program rescued a six-month-old otter stranded on San Carlos Beach in July. She was emaciated and ...