A dugong – also known as a sea cow – was found dead in Barangay San Rafael in Puerto Princesa City, Palawan with wounds believed to have been caused by a vessel propeller. In a social media post, the ...

Drone technology is revealing new information about the elusive dugong, a marine herbivore classified as globally vulnerable but already extinct in parts of its range. Scientists are using drones to ...

Three instances of Dugongs rescued by fishermen of coastal Pudukottai district have been reported in quick intervals during this month. The marine mammal — commonly known as sea cow — got entangled in ...

A Mississippi woman discovered a rare, fossilized jawbone of an ancient sea cow known as a dugong. The fossil, estimated to be between 28 and 30 million years old, was found along the Chickasawhay ...

Personnel from DENR-12 Protected Area Management Office of the Sarangani Bay Protected Seascape (PAMO-SBPS), assisted by Bantay Dagat (sea patrol), conduct a necropsy on the lifeless sea mammal called ...

Tamil Nadu coast hosts 270 dugongs, India's largest population of the species. Active breeding and stable numbers signal hope for dugong survival. A Dugong Conservation Centre is being built in Manora ...

The estimated population of dugongs in Tamil Nadu has been put at 270. A survey undertaken by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in collaboration with the Forest Department along the Tamil Nadu ...

Chennai :The population of dugongs along the Tamil Nadu coast has been estimated at 270 by WII, and this signals a stable and thriving environment for the endangered marine mammals, a top state ...

CHENNAI: A comprehensive population assessment conducted by the Wildlife Institute of India (WII) in collaboration with the Tamil Nadu Forest Department has estimated a total of 270 dugongs along the ...

The Mohamed Bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund and Mubadala are launching a major new initiative to conserve the dugong and its seagrass habitats in the UAE and four other countries. The initiative ...

A drone hovers above a feeding dugong in Tang Khen Bay, off Phuket. Dugongs, a sea cow species related to manatees, are particularly threatened by loss of habitat, pollution and tourism Photograph: ...