ZooTampa at Lowry Park is currently providing care and rehabilitation to 27 manatees, the most the zoo has had at one time.

Stubby, the Columbus Zoo's much-loved surrogate mama manatee, will be part of the NBC program's focus on the zoo's efforts to ...

As manatee sightings and maybe numbers in NC increase, officials say people need to learn to observe but leave the docile, ...

Manatees are iconic and beloved Florida creatures. But they might be relatively new residents of the Sunshine State. Research ...

Recent research suggests that manatees might not be native to Florida, potentially having settled there only after European ...

Manatees are a bit like the Sunshine State's transplants: they recently moved there, attracted by the warm weather and human ...

TAMPA, Fla. — ZooTampa has surpassed its record for most manatees taken into the park's critical care center at 27 patients.

FOX 13’s Lloyd Sowers spoke with Tom Pluckhahn, USF professor of anthropology, about the surprisingly recent history of ...

New research suggests that while manatees are an indelible part of Florida’s seascape, they might also be relatively new ...

Crews rescued a manatee last week from the Tar River in Pitt County, marking the first live rescue of a manatee in the state.

New research suggests that while manatees are an indelible part of Florida's seascape, they might also be relatively new ...

Over the course of his career, study co-author and University of South Florida anthropologist Thomas Pluckhahn realized that ...