Manatees are a bit like the Sunshine State's transplants: they recently moved there, attracted by the warm weather and human ...
The Manatee County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help finding an elderly man who went missing earlier this week ...
"It's something they deal with on a daily basis." According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, there are an estimated ...
But the WWF says their status is "under debate." The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service downlisted manatees from "endangered" to "threatened" in 2017. Major threats to manatee populations include poor ...
As manatee sightings and maybe numbers in NC increase, officials say people need to learn to observe but leave the docile, ...
Over the course of his career, study co-author and University of South Florida anthropologist Thomas Pluckhahn realized that ...
While a unique situation, seeing a West Indian manatee, or sea cow, in North Carolina isn't as rare as most people think. But as an endangered marine mammal, officials stress people have to be ...