Manatees will spend the next several months swimming to and from warm water retreats in Florida as their nature requires temps at or above 68 degrees.

November marks Manatee Awareness Month, a time to be extra considerate and informed about Florida’s sea cows as they face urgent threats and need help perhaps now more than ever. Manatee deaths in ...

“There’s Lily,” said Wayne Hartley, gesturing underneath the water’s surface within Blue Spring run from atop his signature red canoe that displays the label, “manatee research.” In the 80 years he’s ...

Dauphin Island researchers are calling on Gulf Coast beachgoers to keep an eye out for the “coast’s most charismatic seasonal visitors,” West Indian manatees. Also known as “sea cows,” the manatees ...

TAMPA, Fla. — At ZooTampa, animal handlers are working to save a record number of injured manatees — including a mother sea cow and her calf brought in just days ago. Staffers quite literally have ...

Florida Tech students are developing a robotic manatee, called "Mechanatee," to study real manatees without disturbing them. The robot will mimic the movements and communication of manatees to gather ...

It's often called a manatee migration, but Florida's cows aren't leaving state waters in search of some secluded island in the warm waters of the Caribbean. Instead, they're headed upstream and into ...