And while it probably wouldn't harm a manatee if you were somehow able to swim to it and give it a hug, do you dare touch one of these gentle giants?

Christopher Columbus gets credit for the first written record of manatees in North America, ones he saw near the Dominican ...

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. These ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — The West Indian manatee, of which the Florida manatee is a subspecies, is already considered threatened. However, some environmental groups hoped to have the Florida manatee ...

It might be hard to imagine, but manatees are believed to have inspired sailors’ tales of mermaids and sirens. Visit the blog ...

Hundreds of manatees are beginning to enter the waterways of Crystal River this month, marking the beginning of manatee ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today denied endangered status for the Florida manatee and proposed to protect the Antillean manatee of Puerto Rico as endangered. A 2022 ...

It looks like federal regulators are rebuffing an effort to get the Florida manatee back on the endangered species list. Several statewide environmental groups had petitioned the U.S. Fish and ...

Crystal River, in the town of the same name on the west-central coast of the US state of Florida, is dubbed the ‘Manatee ...

PORT ARANSAS, Texas - A rare wildlife encounter with a West Indian manatee and an environmentally-aware crew temporarily halted a $64 million ferry project on the Texas Gulf Coast this summer. "TxDOT ...