As manatee sightings and maybe numbers in NC increase, officials say people need to learn to observe but leave the docile, ...

A manatee was rescued from the Tar River canal in Greenville, the first documented case of a manatee being rescued in the ...

According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, this rescue is the first time a manatee has been successfully rescued in ...

TAMPA, Fla. — ZooTampa has surpassed its record for most manatees taken into the park's critical care center at 27 patients.

A new study suggests manatees weren’t permanent residents in the Sunshine State until around the 20th century, drawn in by a ...

Located near the confluence of the Solimões and Japurá rivers, Lake Amanã, which means “the path of the rain,” is known as ...

A manatee rescued from a canal in Greenville’s Tar River marks the first documented live manatee rescue in North Carolina, ...

TAMPA, Fla. – Manatees, which are iconic fixtures of the Sunshine State, might not have always been permanent residents of ...

We know manatees to be important fixtures in Florida, but new research has suggested that they might be relatively recent ...

Manatees are a bit like the Sunshine State's transplants: they recently moved there, attracted by the warm weather and human ...

Over the course of his career, study co-author and University of South Florida anthropologist Thomas Pluckhahn realized that ...

Historic accounts reveal manatee populations increased in the 1800s and 1900s alongside human populations. A new study ...