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Fishing industry and Indigenous community leaders in Australia's north are calling for further investigation into why dugong ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The herbivorous dugong was classed as a vulnerable species in 1982 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Hunters like Munsa in ...

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 ...

ILOILO CITY — A day after residents of an Antique island helped a stranded juvenile dugong return to the sea, another of the threatened marine mammals was found dead along the coast of the province.

Aerial surveys show dugong numbers in the Gulf of Carpentaria have dropped by 50 per cent. Researchers have partnered with Indigenous ranger groups to monitor dugong numbers after an 18-year gap ...

See the photos of a marine animal rarely seen off the Aussie coast, as scientists grow concerned about a decline in their ...

Dugongs once floated peacefully in southern Chinese waters. Now, however, because of hunting, habitat loss, collisions with ships and other human interventions, these gentle marine mammals are ...

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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 ...

The study said the dugong, a vegetarian mammal that ranges across Asia and Africa, has essentially vanished from the country’s coastline. By Mike Ives The dugong, a species of so-called sea cow that ...