Do not touch or feed manatees; that can change their behavior and put them in harm’s way. SOURCES Save the Manatee Club, NOAA, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Southwest ...

Recent news articles and broadcasts have claimed that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida's west ...

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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 ...

A manatee was spotted in a Pompano Beach waterway with a bike tire stuck around its torso on Dec. 27, but it swam away before Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologists could ...

Two new manatees, Cider and Mino, have arrived at EPCOT's The Seas with Nemo & Friends exhibit. The manatees are part of a rehabilitation program and will eventually be released back into the wild.

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 population ...

We conducted 35 drone flights over several sinkholes to observe manatee behavior and document their interactions with vessels. We also deployed two underwater hydrophones to measure noise levels.

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 ...