Recent news articles and broadcasts have drawn on a 2024 University of South Florida study to ... African and West Indian manatee species. While Sirenian fossils have been found globally, only ...

After reviewing scientific and commercial data, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Monday proposed separate Endangered Species Act listings for two West Indian manatee subspecies.

February 24: A female manatee (167 cm) in Rim Canal, South Bay, died from cold stress. May 22: An undetermined sex manatee (248 cm) in Lake Worth Lagoon, West Palm Beach, was found too decomposed ...

Recent news articles and broadcasts have claimed that manatees are not native to Florida or only arrived on Florida's west ...

Crystal River, about 70 miles north of Tampa on Florida’s west coast, is one of the only ... from their homes in Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina—even as far away as Texas and Virginia ...

Early in the 19th century, while the rapidly-growing United States expanded into the lower South ... Kentucky and North Carolina. This was a period of voluntary Indian migration, however, and ...

Manatees belong to the order Sirenia, which includes the Amazonian, African, and West Indian manatee species ... that Trichechus manatus bakerorum lived in Florida and North Carolina about 125,000 ...

Under the Endangered Species Act, the West Indian manatee was considered to be threatened ... Photos and videos taken from warm water refuge sites in Central and South Florida show dozens of manatees ...

The so-called West Indian manatee lives in the Gulf of Mexico off the coasts of Florida and the south-eastern USA, the coasts of Central America, the Caribbean Islands, and the northern coasts of ...

The bill stipulates that the West Indian manatee will be treated as an endangered species according to the Endangered Species Act of 1973. This means that the manatee will receive legal protection ...

The first manatee rescued in North Carolina is now back in the ocean. Pamlico, the 9-foot female manatee rescued last fall, has been released into the Tampa Bay by staff from the Florida Fish and ...