STARKVILLE, Miss.—J.R.R. Tolkien once wrote “Not all those who wander are lost,” but West Indian manatees found moving from Florida up the Atlantic seaboard or west into the northern Gulf of Mexico ...

Two of the manatees were rescued from the Fort Myers-Bonita Springs area in 2024 and released Feb. 18. according to Save the ...

That might be one of the reasons why Romeo, a manatee living in captivity for more than 50 years, has reached 71 years of age. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, he is now officially the ...

Manatee Park in Southwest Florida was closed for several hours after the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

At least 25 manatees died in Lee County last week. Wildlife officials say cold stress was likely a factor, but questions remain about an unplanned shutdown at an FPL power plant.

Florida's manatees faced near-record deaths for young sea cows in 2025, but also saw seagrass recovery, new legal protections ...

The Indian River Lagoon, a long braid of brackish mangroves and shifting islands, runs along Florida’s Atlantic coast. It is home to 4,300 species, including many of the state’s remaining manatees, ...

West Indian manatees, which inhabit coastal inland waters spanning from the southeastern U.S. coast to northern South America, have been spotted in Louisiana. In the U.S., this species of manatee ...

The return of summer in the Cape Fear region means more than just local roads clogged with tourists, the smell of suntan lotion, and pop-up afternoon thunderstorms. It also means the increasing ...

City surveyors in Melbourne Beach, Florida, heard an unusual chirping under a road on Feb. 9 while doing routine work, and thought it could be coming from rats. Instead, they discovered a 7-foot-long ...

A rare rescue on Florida's Space Coast drew crowds as crews used a crane to safely lift a manatee that became stuck inside a ...