A sperm whale recently washed up on a beach in South Africa, a strikingly rare occurrence that hasn’t happened in recent ...

Authorities in St. Vincent and the Grenadines say they have discovered an abandoned boat and the remains of 11 people along with passports from the west African country of Mali ...

Strauss didn’t look away from the horror of his times; he made music out of the experience. Like many of the works performed ...

A 1,000-pound female manatee that was recovering at a Florida state park from a boat strike drowned earlier this year after employees left her unattended and she ...

Young West African ‘catfish’ scammers have turned cyber-fraud into a cornerstone of transnational crime by recycling age-old scams for the social media age. We investigate. “I can go three days ...

The most common species is the West Indian manatee, inhabiting the waters of the Caribbean Sea, Gulf of Mexico, Amazon Basin, and West Africa, with notable populations in Florida. These creatures need ...

Next to it, in the Amazon region in South America, lives the Amazonian manatee (red area), and finally, on the coasts of West Africa between Senegal and northern Angola and in the river systems, there ...

Their decline signals broader environmental distress. The International Union for Conservation of Nature classifies the West African manatee as vulnerable and the Amazonian manatee as endangered.

Fossil and genetic evidence reveal a rich history of manatees in Florida. Manatees belong to the order Sirenia, which includes the Amazonian, African and West Indian manatee species. Though Sirenian ...

CAMEROON – Ever since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees ... were still being served in the village restaurant. Manatee hunting is now outlawed, and the dish has vanished from ...

Much still eludes researchers about the African manatee — how many are in Cameroon, how long do they live, and when and where they migrate. African manatees are found between Mauritania and Angola, ...