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 ...

Manatee commissioners are set to discuss health concerns associated with fluoride in drinking water, on Tuesday.

We traveled the 90-mile or so road from Miami, along pine forests, cypress swamps, sawgrass marshes, and ponds to this final ...

A rare sighting of Dugong, gentle giants of the seagrass ecosystem, pins hopes of population recovery in the Andaman Islands.

Silver Springs and the Ocklawaha River can recover their lost beauty if we remove the dam, let the rivers flow and reduce ...

Researchers discovered a lack of archaeological or historical evidence that this species lived in this area early on. Scientists make unexpected discovery about Florida's beloved manatees: 'The actual ...

You’d never know that before the waterway was dredged in the early 20th century, this was all once the huge fresh water Lake Worth ... You may well spot some manatees, sea turtles and eagle ...

Unlike their manatee cousins, they never go into fresh water, so are considered the only completely herbivorous marine mammal, according to Oceana. Dugongs and manatees are easy to tell apart ...