An orphaned dugong named Marium, who became an internet star after being rescued in Thailand in April, has died. Vets caring for the dugong off the island of Koh Libong, in south Thailand’s ...

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 ...

Spotting a mother dugong gracefully swimming with her calf in crystal-clear waters off the Australian coast is a rare and magical sight. Yet, earlier this month, a group of lucky travellers ...

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 ...

KOTA KINABALU, Dec 17 — A rare sighting of a dugong in the diver’s haven of ... blue-ringed octopus, baby seahorses, frogfish, ghost pipe fish and clownfish. “This rare sighting here is ...

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 ...