The stamp, illustrated by Nancy Wright, shows a gray-green West Indian manatee “placidly lolling underwater near the surface,” according to the Postal Service website. Here are all the deets ...

As manatee sightings and maybe numbers in NC increase, officials say people need to learn to observe but leave the docile, endangered sea cows alone. News Sports Entertainment Port City Life ...

Fossil evidence indicates that an extinct manatee subspecies lived in Florida and North Carolina about 125,000 years ago but did not survive the last glacial period, which began 100,000 to 85,000 ...

The West Indian manatee had seen extremely low numbers due to a range of threats, including habitat destruction, but due to improving population sizes, was reclassified from "endangered" to ...