Once hunted to near extinction, restored sea otters restore degraded coastline, cutting erosion by 90% by chowing down on crabs
2024-02-07
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Sea Otters Returned to a Degraded Coastline Ate Enough Crabs to Restore Balance and Cut Erosion by 90%
Against all odds, a distressed California coastal ecosystem is on the mend, in large part, thanks to the insatiable appetite sea otters have for crabs.
In a groundbreaking study published this week in Nature, scientists revealed that the return of sea otters