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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

A new study suggests manatees weren’t permanent residents in the Sunshine State until around the 20th century, drawn in by a ...

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

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

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

Historic accounts reveal manatee populations increased in the 1800s and 1900s alongside human populations. A new study ...