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 ...

A rare fossil has provided a snapshot of what was an exceptionally unlucky day for a prehistoric sea cow. The now-extinct species of dugong, a manatee-like marine mammal, was swimming in the sea about ...

Spanning around 10 feet in length and weighing 1,000 pounds on average, manatees are the gentle giants of water. In some cases, the "sea cow" can grow up to 13 feet long and weigh 3,500 pounds, ...

Watching a manatee eat can truly be something to behold, especially when it looks like it's eating everything in sight. This was the case on Monday (Oct. 9) when the News-Press and Naples Daily News ...

A fossil unearthed on Santa Rosa Island in Channel Islands National Park is drawing major attention from the paleontology community. Estimated to be between 20 and 25 million years old, the specimen ...

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