Prolonged exposure to cold water can cause manatees to lose body heat, leading to a potentially fatal condition known as "cold stress." ...

Armored catfish are driving manatees out of their warm-water refuges, putting their health at risk. Here’s why it’s happening ...

During this time, manatees do not eat seagrass and may lose dozens or even hundreds of pounds. Manatees are slow-moving, seagrass-eating marine mammals. Florida manatees spend up to eight hours a ...

“The manatees come here to Manatee Lagoon for that warm water, but we don’t have a large population of seagrass right here on our property,” Shanker said. “And so they’ll come here to Manatee Lagoon ...

After two especially deadly winters, seagrass in the area began to recover, and manatee deaths have dropped. “Seagrass is resilient, and it came back on its own, and manatees found it,” de Wit ...