The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission staff found a small female manatee with severe cold stress in a ditch ...

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

School District of Manatee County employees , Stacy Freeman and Suzanne Theiss, honored this week at the 2025 Excellence in ...

The man was travelling by bus westbound on I-70 but was delayed due to a large traffic accident near Vail, Colorado.

Recent news articles and broadcasts have claimed that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida’s west coast in the 1950s. These claims, based on limited anthropological records, ...

When Florida's waters cool, this location's heated waters provide a manatee sanctuary. Since the '80s, the public has been ...

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 ...

The grant recipients offer high-impact initiatives that address critical needs and improve lives in Sarasota and Manatee ...

Manatees suffering from depressed temperatures in typically balmy Florida are resorting to hanging out in the warm discharge of the state’s power plants. According to an Associated Press report ...

Of the 565 manatees that died statewide last year, 17 died from floodgates or navigational locks: about 3 percent of all deaths, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission data.

Watercraft manatee deaths were up in 2024 as 96 sea cows were hit and killed by vessels in the Sunshine State. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC, is reporting that 565 ...