Researchers estimate southern sea otters eat up to 120,000 European green crabs per year at the Elkhorn Slough National ...

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

One of the most invasive species in the marine environment.” Researchers make astonishing discovery while studying sea otters ...

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

By Tim Didion and Drew Tuma Click here for updates on this story MONTEREY, California (KGO) -- When we first met the hungry otters ...

they can probably eat somewhere between 50,000 and 120,000 green crabs the slough per year, and I mean, 100,000 green crabs consumed by otters, that’s a lot,” Jeppesen explains. So she and her ...

As invasive green crabs wreak havoc on California's estuaries, a new study has found that a restored sea otter population ...

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 ...

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.