With the peek of sea turtle nesting season already here, Manatee County has come up with a clever idea to keep the animals safe. Hay bales have been placed across Bradenton Beach to hopefully help ...

Dugongs look like they’re vacuuming, but they’re really grazing with specialized snouts. Find out how they feed, where they live, and more.

The mystery material is actually manatee grass, a crucial part of a manatee's diet. However, instead of being underwater, it is now washed up on the shores of Marco Island. James Douglass ...

He is the only manatee calf under care at Caxiuana. Once he has fully transitioned to a plant-based diet, he’ll spend time in a river enclosure before his release. That site will be selected ...

Manatees, nicknamed sea cows, are foragers that rely on a plant-based diet. They can eat up to 150 pounds of food per day. According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...

He and Inigo reunited in the Gulfarium’s manatee habitat as Disney clinical ... weight and suffering irregularity from a desperation diet: rope, foam and rags. Being a nature nincompoop may ...

This algae proliferates largely from septic and fertilizer runoff. The overpopulation of algae has affected manatee diet and nutrition. A study involving Allen, the United States Geological Survey, ...

“Droughts worsened by climate change also affect manatees’ diet,” Marmontel points out. “They feed on organic matter at the ...

While manatees eat a broad diet of over 60 different plants, they most commonly feed on species of seagrass. Seagrasses are marine plants that, like land plants, have leaves, flowers, roots and ...