Angry sea otter shreds surfer’s board in Santa Cruz

While sharks likely spring to mind as one of the scariest animals in the ocean, surfers off the coast of Santa Cruz have lately been terrorized by something much cuter – a 5-year-old female sea otter. Video taken on July 9 captured the particularly aggressive female taking issue with one surfer’s position in the lineup off Cowell Beach. The marine mammal is seen biting the board and getting on top of it, prompting the surfer – 40-year-old Apple software engineer Joon Lee, according to the Los Angeles Times – to...