A nearly seven-foot-long Dugong, a marine mammal commonly known as “sea cow”, which got entangled in the fishing net, was ...

Fishermen in Tamil Nadu's Thanjavur district cut their nets to free a trapped 6-ft, 400-kg dugong after learning it was an ...

A rare sighting of Dugong, gentle giants of the seagrass ecosystem, pins hopes of population recovery in the Andaman Islands. The decade-long Dugong population recovery program of #MoEFCC through ...

The dugong, often dubbed the “sea cow,” is a marine mammal that has roamed the warm coastal waters from East Africa to ...

Kasetsart University's marine ecologist Thon Thamrongnawasawat has called for Thai people to preserve dugongs, saying that the population of the mammals has been dropping every year due to a decline ...

Douglas encountered this dugong in a sheltered, shallow bay on the Egyptian coast. It was eating seagrass, its principal food, moving itself along on its flippers rather than its whale-like tail, ...

Trichy: A fishing crew from Thanjavur district rescued a 7ft-long dugong which was trapped in a fishing net and released into the sea.

For over a millennium, the bond between the Philippines and its ethnic Chinese community has been defined by trade, cultural exchange, and mutual growth. Today, the Federation of Filipino Chinese ...

DESCRIPTION: The dugong is a marine mammal related to the manatee. It averages nine feet in length and weighs 550 to 1,000 pounds. The Okinawa dugong is slate gray to gray bronze in color and its tail ...

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 ...

OTSU, Shiga Prefecture--Researchers have developed a new way to locate habitats of the elusive dugong, an endangered type of sea cow, by analyzing DNA left behind in the water from its skin and ...

Jake Mason, of Shark Bay Eco Tours, said he's been lucky enough to spot the "cows of the sea" in their natural a habitat a ...