The undersea world is an amazing one. There are countless species beneath the surface, all engaging in fascinating activities that you have to see to believe. Case in point: the dugong. As you’ll see ...

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Drone technology is providing important new insights into the lives of dugongs, while also revealing the vital role they play ...

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 ...

The herbivorous dugong was classed as a vulnerable species in 1982 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Hunters like Munsa in Bintan, a cluster of islands between Sumatra and ...

You're missing out if you've never heard of the dugong. These cousins of the manatee closely resemble their Florida family, as they are large and gray herbivores that float peacefully through the ...

The dugong, a gentle giant of the ocean, is now "functionally extinct" in China, a new study said Wednesday. There have been no records of dugongs in China's waters since 2008, researchers from the ...

A new report reveals that Tanzania’s population of dugongs is on the verge of collapse as a result of accidental entanglement in gill nets. Nairobi, Kenya – A new report reveals that Tanzania’s ...

Legend has it that the inspiration for mermaids comes from an elusive sea mammal, so skittish that it flees at the first sight of a human. It’s an animal that features heavily in the folklore of ...

A Mississippi woman was a part of a team hunting for fossils along the Chickasawhay River in Southeast Mississippi, and she would have been happy to find anything. What she discovered was a rare, ...

A Mississippi woman discovered a rare, fossilized jawbone of an ancient sea cow known as a dugong. The fossil, estimated to be between 28 and 30 million years old, was found along the Chickasawhay ...