Manatees will spend the next several months swimming to and from warm water retreats as their tropical nature requires temps ...

November marks the 45th year for Manatee Awareness Month as well as the official start of manatee season, which runs from Nov ...

As manatee sightings and maybe numbers in NC increase, officials say people need to learn to observe but leave the docile, ...

Manatees eat for almost half of their day, putting away approximately 10 percent of their body weight in plants each and every day. Also known as “sea cows,” manatees are the largest ocean ...

Over the course of his career, study co-author and University of South Florida anthropologist Thomas Pluckhahn realized that ...

November marks the 45th year for Manatee Awareness Month, a special time to recognize and honor Florida’s sea cows that was designated by former Florida Gov. Bob Graham in 1979. This month also ...

Sea cow, not pond cow. A juvenile manatee was rescued from a small pond in Florida — a mile and a half from open water — after being stranded there due to the storm surge of Hurricane Helene.

While a unique situation, seeing a West Indian manatee, or sea cow, in North Carolina isn't as rare as most people think. But as an endangered marine mammal, officials stress people have to be ...

With November being Manatee Awareness Month, officials are using this announcement to highlight the ongoing need to help sick, injured and orphaned sea cows. “We have already released 12 ...

the University of Florida and ZooTampa to save the 500-pound sea cow named Gully entrapped in a small pond. The two-year-old male manatee was found by a local hunter who reported him. A video from ...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that wetlands, including mangroves, are not protected under the Clean Water Act. This ...