Feb. 24 (UPI) --Experts said a mysterious hair-covered carcass that washed up on a Philippines beach could be the badly decomposed remains of a dugong or a sperm whale. The massive carcass, which ...

Fishermen in the Philippines are using Android apps and smartphones to track dugongs in the Philippines, in a bid to help save them from extinction. The fisherman capture data to upload to an internet ...

A rescued baby dugong — a plant-eating marine mammal who looks a bit like a vacuum cleaner — is getting some TLC in captivity, as veterinarians take the unusual step of treating him away from his ...

A dugong in the Philippines has two sets of companions: one is welcome, the other is not. A dugong in the Philippines has two sets of companions, streamlined remoras and striped golden jacks. The ...

The dugong, a manatee-like creature that is thought to have inspired myths about mermaids, has been declared extinct in China. There have been no verified sightings by scientists of the dugong in ...

Two brave fishermen from the Philippines began the year by saving the life of a trapped dugong or sea cow, the ancient sea mammal generally credited with being the origin of the mermaid myth. Manila, ...

MANILA—Efforts to save an orphaned baby dugong rescued by fishermen nearly two weeks ago failed on Sunday night, when the plant-eating marine mammal nicknamed Binu, died at the ocean park where ...

Long regarded as Sirenas or Mermaids by the mariners of old, gentle Dugongs (Dugong dugon) inhabit shallow waters of the Coral Triangle, wherever seagrass is most abundant. Long regarded as Sirenas or ...

Time, tales and travels have created myths of half-human, half-fish creatures across the world. While such mermaid legends live on, their likely inspiration, the dugong, is slowly dying off. Now, ...

Dugongs in Thailand are currently at risk of extinction as fatalities of the aquatic mammals continue to increase over the past few years. Kasetsart University's marine ecologist Thon ...

The dugong, an endangered marine animal species designated as a natural monument by the government of Japan, almost certainly inhabit broad areas of the Ryukyu Island chain in Okinawa Prefecture, ...