So it made sense when the organizers of a North Carolina festival suggested that the state zoo here adopt a mascot to promote clean rivers. Except that the creature in question is the snot otter.

Mascots should be fun. Alas, University of llinois students voted 3,807-3,510 last week against making the mammal the school's official symbol.

The public can help CWI choose "River the Otter," or "Rio the Otter," for its mascot's name. The survey also includes two options for the mascot's logo.

University of Illinois senior Spencer Hulsey's design for a new mascot: the appropriately orange-and-blue-colored belted kingfisher, which is native to Illinois. A female belted kingfisher is ...

After the committee voted 'Sparkles' down, the board turned to the remaining three mascots: the bighorns, the horned owls and the otters.

Chiitan the otter, once semi-official mascot to Susaki City in Japan, is calling for a no-holds barred flaming table match with HBO's John Oliver.

“Otters are the mascots we deserve,” says another. Alma Otter, whose name is a riff on the welcoming U. of I. campus statue, Alma Mater, by sculptor Lorado Taft, first appeared last year as a ...

Ballentine says Olly Otter came to life 6 years ago to promote family fun, meaningful play, and memorable moments. ”Those are the things that children remember and look back on in years to come ...

URBANA, Ill. (WAND) – A proposed “Alma Otter” at the University of Illinois did not get enough votes in in the school’s spring student election.

Students at the University of Illinois may not see a mustelid mascot after all. The results of a referendum question from the Illinois Student Government asking if Alma Otter should become the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - An independent mascot is expanding his mission to bring smiles and joy to cancer patients across the Carolinas. He calls himself Olly the Otter, a six-foot mammal that ...