Brevard County is leading the state in manatee deaths in 2025. ORLANDO, Fla. - Brevard County is leading the state in manatee deaths in 2025, according to the FWC.

Saving the Sea Cows: Manatees in Crisis. Posted: May 22, 2025 | Last updated: May 22, 2025. Gentle and majestic, manatees are silently slipping toward extinction due to habitat loss, ...

Manatees were spotted at the Calusa Marina in Goodland, Florida on March 31st. The manatees were drinking fresh water and appeared to enjoy being sprayed with a hose. Manatees, nicknamed "sea cows ...

Cue up the Mission Impossible intro: Three Florida Tech students are making a mechanical 'spy' manatee to covertly learn sea cows' deepest secrets.

Kayaking with the sea cows at Lee County Manatee Park in Fort Myers Published: Feb. 20, 2025, 8:27 a.m. (Courtesy Lee County Parks & Recreation staff) Courtesy Lee County Parks & Recreation staff ...

Now’s the best time to see manatees up-close in Southwest Florida. And one of the best places for sea cow viewing is Manatee Park, east of Fort Myers.

Watercraft manatee deaths were up in 2024 as 96 sea cows were hit and killed by vessels in the Sunshine State. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, or FWC, is reporting that 565 ...

Closely related to other mammals like modern dugongs and manatees, twenty-foot Steller's sea cows used to swim the waters between Russian and Alaska beginning up to 11,700 years ago.

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 ...