FAU, SeaWorld San Diego, and the San Diego Natural History Museum have joined forces to scan the rare skeleton of the vaquita, the world's smallest and most endangered porpoise. The vaquita, meaning ...

Disney has brought in a few new manatees to the SeaBase Aquarium at the Living Seas with Nemo and Friends and EPCOT.

After the former resident manatees moved out, the manatee tanks in The Seas at EPCOT have four new short-term guests, two ...

The Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge on the Indian River Lagoon in East Central Florida became the first national wildlife refuge.

A record 154 young Florida manatees died before reaching one year of age in 2024, including more than half of the 100 manatees that died in Brevard County, state statistics show. So-called "perinatal" ...

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 ...

A pair of endangered manatees were released into the Caribbean Sea in Puerto Rico after they were separated from their mother and nursed back to health. NBC News' George Solis reports.

Armored catfish are driving manatees out of their warm-water refuges, putting their health at risk. Here’s why it’s happening ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A community in southern Madagascar has pulled together to save thousands of critically endangered tortoises swept away from their sanctuary and left swimming for ...

So when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was asked to upgrade the protection level of Florida’s manatees, which had been knocked down from “endangered” to the lower level of “threatened ...