ZooTampa at Lowry Park is currently providing care and rehabilitation to 27 manatees, the most the zoo has had at one time.

As manatee sightings and maybe numbers in NC increase, officials say people need to learn to observe but leave the docile, ...

In addition to expanding the Florida manatee’s critical habitat to 1,904,191 acres, up from the current 965,394 acres, the ...

Manatees are a bit like the Sunshine State's transplants: they recently moved there, attracted by the warm weather and human ...

The general health of the lagoon has improved from 2023 to 2024 in many ways. "The Mosquito Lagoon had a good year with low ...

Recent research suggests that manatees might not be native to Florida, potentially having settled there only after European ...

FOX 13’s Lloyd Sowers spoke with Tom Pluckhahn, USF professor of anthropology, about the surprisingly recent history of ...

Over the course of his career, study co-author and University of South Florida anthropologist Thomas Pluckhahn realized that ...

New research suggests that while manatees are an indelible part of Florida's seascape, they might also be relatively new ...

A new study suggests manatees weren’t permanent residents in the Sunshine State until around the 20th century, drawn in by a ...

Historic accounts reveal manatee populations increased in the 1800s and 1900s alongside human populations. A new study ...

New research suggests that while manatees are an indelible part of Florida’s seascape, they might also be relatively new ...