Jess Thomson is a Newsweek Science Reporter based in London UK. Her focus is reporting on science, technology and healthcare. She has covered weird animal behavior, space news and the impacts of ...

Residents of Ulverston, Cumbria, have been terrorised by a family of otters that have developed a taste for expensive fish, causing havoc in the community's ornamental ponds. The situation has ...

People living in a UK town say they are being terrorised by a family of otters who are eating their fish. Residents in Ulverston, Cumbria, have become sick of the creatures breaking into their ...

A beached killer whale was dissected in the Commander Islands in 2020. Scientists were surprised to find seven fully intact sea otters in the orca's stomach. They were puzzled because the orca was ...

More than 80,000 otters – over 90% of the population – vanished between 1990 and 2010. The reasons are not completely clear, but the suspected culprit is killer whales. Killer whales rarely ...

Otters chow down on urchins ... Approving two proposed killer whale species could transform how they’re conserved. It would also turn a new page in one of the strangest chapters in marine ...

Wildlife responders in Alaska were confronted with an "unusually dramatic" rescue situation after an orphaned, newborn sea otter was saved after an orca attack. The Sept. 9 attack was witnessed by ...

The mystery behind the discovery of a killer whale - far from its usual habitat - with seven whole sea otters in its stomach has thickened. Ocras don't typically eat otters, scientists said today ...

Here’s how it works. Scientists in Russia discovered seven perfectly intact sea otters in the belly of a beached orca, according to a new study. The doomed killer whale was found far from its ...

Otters have been spotted on a rural estate for the first time in 70 years. The pair of otters - a mother and baby - were seen at Ewhurst Park, a 1,000-acre estate near Basingstoke. In September ...