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

Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. The stamp, illustrated by Nancy Wright, shows a gray-green West Indian manatee “placidly lolling underwater near the surface,” according ...

The West Indian manatee, of which the Florida manatee is a subspecies, is already considered threatened. Trump administration halts work at fraud-fighting Consumer Financial Protection Bureau 3 ...

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 ...

Manatees belong to the order Sirenia, which includes the Amazonian, African and West Indian manatee species. While Sirenian fossils have been found globally, only Florida and the Caribbean contain ...

Prolonged exposure to cold water can cause manatees to lose body heat, leading to a potentially fatal condition known as "cold stress." ...

Thousands of manatees have starved to death in the last few years, and that should have been accounted for.” The West Indian manatee, including both the Florida and Puerto Rico subspecies, was ...

Representatives Darren Soto (D-FL) and Vern Buchanan (R-FL) have introduced bipartisan legislation to protect Florida's ...