EditorialMiniature of Cuthbert praying in the sea, while the spy watches him above; at the lower right, Cuthbert emerges from the sea to have his feet miraculously dried by otters, from Chapter 10 of Bede's prose Life of St Cuthbert. Prose Life of St. Cuthbert;...
EditorialSea otters, which can eat nearly 1,000 sea urchins a day, have seen their numbers along Alaska’s Aleutian Islands shrink by 90 percent in recent decades. (Scott Dickerson/The New York Times)
EditorialSea otters, which can eat nearly 1,000 sea urchins a day, have seen their numbers along Alaska’s Aleutian Islands shrink by 90 percent in recent decades. (Scott Dickerson/The New York Times)
EditorialSea otters, which can eat nearly 1,000 sea urchins a day, have seen their numbers along Alaska’s Aleutian Islands shrink by 90 percent in recent decades. (Scott Dickerson/The New York Times)
EditorialGiant river otters feed on fish supplied by biologists before their reintroduction to the wild at Iberá National Park, in Argentina’s province of Corrientes, March 6, 2020. (Victor Moriyama/The New York Times)