OTSU, Shiga Prefecture--Researchers have developed a new way to locate habitats of the elusive dugong, an endangered type of sea cow ... sequences of the marine creature, allowing them to ...

THANJAVUR: A dugong, an endangered marine mammal, caught in a seine net in the early hours of Sunday near Adirampattinam was ...

Its unique peg-like molars, used for grazing on sea grass, were also visible. But rather than assuming that Penang’s coastal waters suddenly have dugong, the Fisheries Department suspects this ...

A massive dugong (seacow), which was trapped ... Twenty fishermen from Adhiramapattinam had gone into the sea on Sunday ...

As an adaptation to bottom-feeding, its muzzle is turned downward and its upper lip is covered with stiff yet sensitive bristles used to isolate and uproot sea grasses. All dugongs have smooth skin ...

Minister of Natural Resources and Environment Chalermchai Sri-on is scheduled to visit Trang on Saturday to assess the dugong ...

The IUCN said the population of the sea mammals in the Nansei ... In the global assessment of the dugong population in past IUCN red lists, the animals were listed as “Vulnerable,” meaning ...

The fishermen, trained by the forest department on safe rescue procedures, carefully released the dugong back into the sea. This incident highlights the positive impact of conservation efforts and ...

Scientists have also sounded alarm over the loss of other marine creatures ... sparsely populated coast with lots of sea grasses. Earlier this year the dugong was declared functionally extinct ...