It’s one thing to visit an aquarium and gaze in awe at a 1,000-pound manatee swimming just behind the glass. It’s another ...

Few complete skeletons remain of this gentle behemoth, who was destroyed by explorers and fur traders in the Arctic.

Environmentalists say the proposed rollbacks could threaten the lives of sea cows through habitat loss, pollution and ...

Manatee Lagoon hosts a family friendly event Saturday, Nov. 15, the official start to manatee season in Florida.

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

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 ...

ZooTampa says the baby manatee weighs 160 pounds and is in critical condition but stable.

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

When talking about extinct animals, there a few heavy hitters: dodos, passenger pigeons, and thylacines. Though these animals are long gone, they can teach us valuable lessons about history. The ...

Manatee "season" kicked off Nov. 15, a time when the gentle giants make their way south along our shores and canals to seek warmer waters, often in the overflow from the Florida Power & Light power ...