The historic estate ‘s boat basin on Biscayne Bay is considered one of the best places in Miami to see manatees up close. The ...

Share the water with Florida’s sea cows, encountering them in an up-close and personal way on a tour while visiting the aptly ...

Meet Sara, the largest manatee on record in Florida — a 3,000-pound gentle giant roughly the size of a Toyota Corolla!

Floridians love manatees. The marine animals, lovingly known as "sea cows" or "gentle giants," spend the winters swimming in ...

APOLLO BEACH, Fla. — As the temperature drops, families gather to watch the sea cows migrate to warmer waters. Regenia Chambliss said it's quite a sight to see. “Just to see a huge thing come up and ...

Manatees on the east coast feel the winter chill, too. When the weather gets cool, manatees can be found huddled together in ...

Christopher Columbus gets credit for the first written record of manatees in North America, ones he saw near the Dominican ...

The beloved sea cows still face many threats, but deaths this year were not as high as in 2021 and 2022, when conservation groups say a record die-off claimed 20 percent of the population.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A proposal released on Monday by federal wildlife officials included that they would continue referring to Florida manatees as a “threatened” species, a reclassification that dates ...

Over the course of his career, study co-author and University of South Florida anthropologist Thomas Pluckhahn realized that there was a lack of evidence showing that there was a large population of ...