What can be termed as a rare sighting, the team of researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) have spotted a ...

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, ...

PHUKET: The Department of Marine and Coastal Resources (DMCR) this week convened a special meeting at Tha La Beach in Pa ...

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 ...

Dugongs are shy, secretive. >Dugongs are often referred to as "sea cows" because they feed almost exclusively on seagrass. They can eat up to 30kgs of seagrass daily and can weigh anywhere from ...

“The endangered dugong species is currently facing a number of threats due to habitat loss and human-related activities such as increased marine activity, being caught in discarded fishing ...

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 ...