Manatees are such a part of Florida’s environment it’s easy to think they’ve always been here. But have they? That’s what USF ...

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 ...

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

A manatee has been successfully rescued from a Tar River canal in Greenville. It is the first documented case of a manatee ...

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

A distressed manatee was saved from a North Carolina river in mid-November. According to the N.C. Wildlife Resource ...

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

Turtles, tortoises and terrapins are all names used for hard-shelled, egg-laying reptiles. This month's River Life column ...

TAMPA, Fla. — ZooTampa has surpassed its record for most manatees taken into the park's critical care center at 27 patients.

"It's not long before someone says that they just don't see them any more." Experts warn common garden creature at risk of ...