Help is available for Manatee County residents recovering from the effects of Hurricane Helene. More than $358 million in damages have been estimated after Helene’s historic storm surge brought ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — There was something familiar about the manatee hauled onto the back deck of a special manatee-catching boat in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta. It didn’t have any of the telltale propeller ...

A new computer model developed by engineers at the Florida Atlantic University uses deep learning to count manatees in images captured by cameras. The model has been trained to identify manatees in ...

For Florida’s manatee population and manatee conservationists around the world, 2025 was a banner year. ZooTampa’s David A. Straw, Jr. Manatee Critical Care Center released 26 rehabilitated wild ...

Manatees find refuge in the warm waters of Blue Spring located at Blue Spring State Park in 2015. (Red Huber/Orlando Sentinel/Tribune News Service via Getty Images) How many manatees does it take to ...