The slow, gentle manatee is one of the most famous (and photogenic) of the Florida megafauna, and unlike panthers or ...

Meerkat is a social mammal that's native to Africa's desert. This small animal stands upright and lives in burrows. It's ...

Amazonian manatees are listed ‘Vulnerable’ on the IUCN Red list because of hunting, climate change, droughts and habitat loss. Banner image: Amazonian manatees at a rescue center in Peru ...

Florida manatees spend up to eight hours a day grazing on seagrasses and other marine or freshwater vegetation, consuming up to 10% of their body weight in aquatic vegetation a day. They rest two ...

Far from Florida's many tourist traps, Wakulla Springs is an Edenic escape. The stars of the show are the manatees, which have inhabited Wakulla Springs since time immemorial. Husky, peaceful ...

Manatees will occasionally sport algae growths as they are slow moving enough to allow the plants to take hold. HABITAT: Found in both salt and freshwater, manatees typically congregate in coastal ...

A prime suspect is Lake Okeechobee discharges that started a month ago, which floods the brackish St. Lucie River with ...

"If we’re seeing this blue-green algae in winter, God help us in the summertime,” Christine King said, describing the recent ...

(WFLA) – Manatee commissioners are set to discuss ... Fluoride is an ion that is naturally present in groundwater, salt, and freshwater. The process of fluoridation adds the ion to drinking ...

Revealing life under water, whether portraying a particular marine or freshwater environment ... Jason Gulley (USA) gazes through clear water at a manatee and a calf adrift among eelgrass. Jason has ...

The state confirmed a nontoxic algae bloom in Manatee Pocket in Port Salerno ... which floods the brackish St. Lucie River with freshwater and nutrients that feed algae, said Mark Perry, executive ...

PORT SALERNO — Most businesses were not impacted by the Jan. 2 algae bloom in Manatee Pocket that was confirmed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. One dockmaster, however, is ...