Floridians love manatees. The marine animals, lovingly known as "sea cows" or "gentle giants," spend the winters swimming in rivers, bays, canals, estuaries and coastal areas from Nov. 15 to March 31.

A manatee is recovering at ZooTampa after crews found it in southwest Florida suffering from what the Florida Fish and ...

Growing up in Florida, I had a few close encounters with Manatees. There was the family of manatees that would swim up and down the river next to my high school. The injured animals who made their ...

The manatee had been found by biologists lethargic and malnourished in mid-November in a drainage canal, likely attracted by the ditch's warmish waters, off the Tar River near Greenville. Dubbed ...

Florida's manatees will likely remain a threatened species. Federal environmental regulators won't recommended increasing ...

Manatees Cider and Mino made their public debut ... least 600 pounds before we release them back into the wild because we found that that's really correlated with the best long-term success ...

The Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the federal workforce are impacting the only national refuge created specifically for threatened manatees.

"Seagrass is resilient, and it came back on its own, and manatees found it," de Wit said. While overall deaths have come down over the past two years, records show a spike in dead calves for this ...

"Seagrass is resilient, and it came back on its own, and manatees found it," de Wit said. While overall deaths have come down over the past two years, records show a spike in dead calves for this past ...