After the former resident manatees moved out, the manatee tanks in The Seas at EPCOT have four new short-term guests, two ...

A record 154 young Florida manatees died before reaching one year of age in 2024, including more than half of the 100 ...

Manatees are slow-moving, seagrass-eating marine mammals. Florida manatees spend up to eight hours a day grazing on seagrasses and other marine or freshwater vegetation, consuming up to 10% of ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CBS12) — The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) has released its preliminary report on manatee mortality for 2024, revealing significant trends and ...

Watercraft manatee deaths were up in 2024 as 96 sea cows were hit and killed by vessels in the Sunshine State. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC, is reporting that 565 ...

BY SARA WARD AND ZOEY RITCHIE The Orange City Blue Spring Manatee Festival Inc. presented its 39th annual Manatee Festival Saturday, Jan. 25 and Sunday, Jan. 26, in Valentine Park. […] ...

Normally found around Florida, manatees migrate along the East Coast ... please submit information, including photos and location of the animal to the UNCW Marine Mammal Stranding Program.

Recent news articles and broadcasts have drawn on a 2024 University of South Florida study to claim that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida’s west coast in the 1950s.

It looks like federal regulators are rebuffing an effort to get the Florida manatee back on the endangered species list. Several statewide environmental groups had petitioned the U.S. Fish and ...

Manatees Congregate in Warm Waters Near Power Plants as US Winter Storms Graze Florida RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a ...

Florida's youngest manatees died in record numbers last year, possibly from lingering malnutrition or a counterintuitive sign that sea cow reproduction is slowly recovering, after years of fewer ...

RIVIERA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a glancing blow to Florida, dropping coastal temperatures and causing the Sunshine State’s manatee ...