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 skeleton of a dugong that became stranded on Pengundang Beach has been preserved by students from Bogor Agricultural Institute, a university south of Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital.

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

“Kisah Kawal Dugong" (The Story of Kawal Dugong) is the first documentary about dugong made in Indonesia, specifically at Kawasan Konservasi Daerah, one of the regional conservation areas in Indonesia ...

A nearly eight-feet-long Dugong, a marine mammal commonly known as “sea cow”, which got entangled in a fisherman’s net near Keezathottam coastal village in neighbouring Thanjavur district ...