CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — Deep in silence, as if under a spell, children watch intently as Bacuri, a young Amazonian manatee, glides around a small plastic pool. When he surfaces for air ...

Confirming a previously hypothesised role of the Amazonian manatee as a gardener of the forests, biologist Michelle Guterres’ study adds another cap to the already impressive portfolio of this gentle ...

Along the warm waters of Mexico’s Caribbean coast lives a creature so gentle that sailors once mistook it for a mermaid. Slow ...

Deep in Brazil’s Caxiuanã National Forest, a young Amazonian manatee named Bacuri is becoming a symbol of both ecological fragility and hope. Rescued as an orphaned calf weighing just 10 kilograms (22 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — Deep ...