"The sea otters, they're like an assistant manager for us." More From Newser ・Taxi, Ambulance Drivers Fare Better With ...

West coast states are spending millions to protect their inland waterways from invasive crabs. In some places, otters are ...

NPR's Juana Summers speaks to researcher Rikke Jeppesen about her work on how sea otters, which were hunted to almost near extinction, have been able to thrive by eating up to 120,000 crabs a year.

A recent study found sea otters are eating thousands of green crabs at a California reserve, reducing the invasive species’ population.

Though sea otters are an unofficial mascot of Monterey County and popular among tourists and locals alike, they are also described as voracious predators that help keep problematic invaders out of ...

But at California’s Elkhorn Slough, a reserve where about 120 southern sea otters live, the cute apex predators have led to green crabs’ demise by eating up to 120,000 of the invasive species ...

"The otters are a just super voracious predator," said Kerstin Wasson, research coordinator with the Reserve. "We calculated that the current otter population here eats somewhere between 50,000 ...