November marks the 45th year for Manatee Awareness Month as well as the official start of manatee season, which runs from Nov ...

Nolia, Waffles, and Amethyst were flown more than 1,000 miles from Ohio to prepare for release back into the ocean. On Oct. 6 and 7th, the three manatees were placed alongside two others in custom ...

Also known as “sea cows,” manatees are the largest ocean herbivore. 4. The elephant is the closest living relative to manatees. Manatees evolved from the same land animals as elephants over 50 million ...

Real, from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, to ask themselves: “have Antillean manatees entered the Eastern Pacific Ocean?” In other words, has a marine mammal that is native to ...

RANGE: The Florida manatee is found in coastal waters in the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean and Florida's shallow rivers, estuaries and the Everglades. MIGRATION: Manatees migrate in summer, as ...

The Caribbean US territory of Puerto Rico, likened to a "floating island of garbage" at a Republican rally in New York, on ...

The Sunshine State has started a $9.5 million reconstruction project for SeaPort Manatee after it was seriously damaged by Hurricane Milton.

The organism that causes red tide was detected in 49 samples along the coast of Southwest Florida. But bloom-level ...

And it is very likely that some of Florida’s beloved manatees have been stranded or ... can occasionally land on the surface of the ocean, but when there’s a hurricane they do not do well.” ...

This is significant because “seagrass is the rain forest of the ocean,” said Matt Mitchell, director of ERM’s division of Environmental Enhancement & Restoration. “It is an important part ...