The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission staff found a small female manatee with severe cold stress in a ditch ...

Water temperatures remain constant at 72 degrees, making it an "ideal sanctuary" from colder air and water temperatures of surrounding waterways that cool below the mid-60s. The Save the Manatee ...

and that warm water draws the manatees in when it gets cold,” Shanker said. Ocean water is sucked in from the bay and used to cool the plant, but no chemicals or other substances are added to ...

and that warm water draws the manatees in when it gets cold," Shanker said. Ocean water is sucked in from the bay and used to cool the plant, but no chemicals or other substances are added to the ...

“I estimate pretty close to a thousand,” said Lauren Gomez, a staff member at the Manatee Viewing Center in Apollo Beach. The Big Bend Power Station takes in water to cool their machiner ...

and that warm water draws the manatees in when it gets cold," Shanker said. Ocean water is sucked in from the bay and used to cool the plant, but no chemicals or other substances are added to the ...

A polar vortex that has hit much of the U.S. with ice and snow has dealt a glancing blow to Florida and its manatee population ...