“There’s Lily,” said Wayne Hartley, gesturing underneath the water’s surface within Blue Spring run from atop his signature red canoe that displays the label, “manatee research.” In the 80 years he’s ...

Smithsonian researchers and collaborators at Qatar museums describe a sea cow bonebed in Qatar that is among the richest deposits of marine mammal fossils in the world Salwasiren was a miniature ...

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 ...

A new computer model developed by engineers at the Florida Atlantic University uses deep learning to count manatees in images captured by cameras. The model has been trained to identify manatees in ...

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 ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on seagrasses. A newly described fossil site in Qatar reveals that ancient sea cows ...

An artistic reconstruction of a herd of ancient sea cows foraging on the seafloor. Note to editors: Photos of the Al Maszhabiya site and fossils, an artist’s reconstruction of the new species in life ...