To learn more about weird otters of the past (and present), read Romp!, a fantastic book about otters I edited that I will be flogging anytime it's relevant for the foreseeable future. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775730...
An expert on otters dives into their wild and wondrous world You’ve heard of a murder of crows and a pride of lions—but what about a romp of otters? In this informative and entertaining book,...
TIL that on the Italian island of Sardinia in the Late Pleistocene there lived Megalenhydris barbaricina (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalen...), an otter that could grow to more than 2 meters (6.6 ft) long.
(Sardinia also had 1.4m/4.6ft tall dwarf mammoths. I bet kids rode them).
