Floridians love manatees. The marine animals, lovingly known as "sea cows" or "gentle giants," spend the winters swimming in rivers, bays, canals, estuaries and coastal areas from Nov. 15 to March 31.

Three Florida Tech students are making a mechanical 'spy' manatee to covertly learn sea cows' deepest secrets.

“And so they’ll come here to Manatee Lagoon to get warm, then when they start to get hungry, they will travel out to find those seagrass beds, and they’ll go feed until they get ...

manatus manatus individuals were flown in, including a pregnant female, and by the end of 1965, eleven manatees were freely feeding throughout the Panama Canal after the fence in the semi-enclosed ...

You shouldn't touch or feed wild manatees, the the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says. "If manatees become accustomed to being around people, they can alter their behavior in ...