A record 154 young Florida manatees died before reaching one year of age in 2024, including more than half of the 100 manatees that died in Brevard County, state statistics show. So-called "perinatal" ...
From the surface, all seems calm. Persistent armored catfish latch onto a manatee in Silver Glen Springs in Ocala National Forest, Florida, refusing to let go until shaken off. But Berchem knows ...