With a focus on manatee conservation, Disney’s EPCOT manatee exhibit has brought in two new short-term residents in need of ...

Recent news articles and broadcasts have claimed that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida's west ...

A record 154 young Florida manatees died before reaching one year of age in 2024, including more than half of the 100 ...

The biggest grant that Manatee County has ever received is caught up by a federal funding freeze announced by President Donald Trump on Monday that was swiftly blocked in federal court on Tuesday.

Armored catfish are driving manatees out of their warm-water refuges, putting their health at risk. Here’s why it’s happening ...

Manatees, including both the Florida and Antillean subspecies, have suffered setbacks in recent years from crowded waterways, habitat degradation, and sea grass die-offs caused — in large part — by ...

Now’s the best time to see them up-close in their natural habitat. The aquatic herbivores can’t stand cold water. So when Southwest Florida temperatures drop below 68 degrees, manatees head to ...

Now’s the best time to see manatees up-close in Southwest Florida. And one of the best places for sea cow viewing is Manatee Park, east of.

Among the equipment already on the road, according to the state are: Manatees will head to warm-water locations, like springs and power plant discharge areas, the Florida Fish and Wildlife ...

Recent news articles and broadcasts have drawn on a 2024 University of South Florida study to claim that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida’s west coast in the 1950s.

Although the area will see much colder temperatures, Sarasota and Manatee counties will not experience ... moving through west central and southwest Florida Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.