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

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

Recent research suggests that manatees might not be native to Florida, potentially having settled there only after European ...

Manatees are a bit like the Sunshine State's transplants: they recently moved there, attracted by the warm weather and human ...

Over the course of two decades, dolphins have been found to attack the babies of manatees, their cousin species. During […] ...

Manatees along Florida’s coast are eating less seagrass and more algae than they did a few decades ago. This dietary shift ...

These docile marine mammals are categorized into three distinct species based on location ... is home to West Indian manatee. The Amazonian manatee can be found in the Amazon River, while the ...

Manatees were listed as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. By the early 1990s, the manatee population in Florida had dwindled to less than 1,300. In 2017, manatees ...