The dugong — a marine mammal that purportedly inspired ancient mermaid tales — has been declared “functionally extinct” in China due to the degradation of its habitat caused by humans. On Wednesday, a ...

STORY: The stranded dugong, which is an endangered mammal, also known as a sea cow, had several deep scratches and cuts on its body which were bleeding. The Trang province villagers, who found the ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...

The dugong, a gentle marine mammal that has frequented China’s southern waters for hundreds of years, has become functionally extinct in the country, a new study said on Wednesday. Research by the ...

The findings suggest that sea cows have been engineering ecosystems in the Persian Gulf for tens of millions of years ...

BANGKOK (AP) — An 8-month-old dugong nurtured by marine experts after it was found lost near a beach in southern Thailand has died of what biologists believe was a combination of shock and ingesting ...

Scientific history was made yesterday as a major international study, published in the rigorously peer reviewed open access ...

Meet Salwasiren qatarensis, a small, ancient sea cow species whose fossils were found in Qatar, in one of the world’s biggest ...

BANGKOK (AP) — A top marine biologist has urged Thailand’s government to speed up conservation plans for the dugong, an imperiled sea mammal, after their death toll for the year in Thai waters has ...

Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said ...

A major international study published in the peer-reviewed open-access journal, PeerJ, has formally identified a new species ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...