These gentle giants forage in shallow waters, primarily along the coast of Florida, and often have fatal encounters with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SeaWorld Orlando and several partner agencies released three rehabilitated manatees back into the wild Thursday morning. CardiTee, ...

A young female manatee named Jameson made a triumphant return to the wild on Tuesday morning! Officials said that Jameson's adventure began back in February 2025 when she was found at Cobb’s Landing ...

In Florida, manatees are best known as shy, gentle giants. But about once a year, the state’s beloved sea cows reveal an…erm…freakier side of themselves. You ...

One Florida couple is used to seeing manatees swim through their backyard canal — but they sensed that something was off this week when their dog began to bark at one of the aquatic mammals as it ...

For Florida’s manatee population and manatee conservationists around the world, 2025 was a banner year. ZooTampa’s David A. Straw, Jr. Manatee Critical Care Center released 26 rehabilitated wild ...

Christopher Columbus gets credit for the first written record of manatees in North America, ones he saw near the Dominican Republic in 1492. West Indian manatees, also called Florida manatees, are ...