Keeping tabs on the species’ populations is surprisingly hard. A new aerial effort tracks the marks they leave behind A dugong, also known as a sea cow, in a protected marine reserve in the ...

It's often called a manatee migration, but Florida's cows aren't leaving state waters in search of some secluded island in the warm waters of the Caribbean. Instead, they're headed upstream and into ...

“There’s Lily,” said Wayne Hartley, gesturing underneath the water’s surface within Blue Spring run from atop his signature red canoe that displays the label, “manatee research.” In the 80 years he’s ...

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 ...

You can call them the snowbirds of the sea. Manatee "season" kicks off Nov. 15 as the gentle giants make their way along our shores and canals and (hopefully) stop by Florida Power & Light Co.’s ...