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Phuket: A dugong has been spotted for the first time off Rawai beach, causing excitement and fears about the prevailing threat to the rare aquatic animal posed by the current marine environment.

Legend has it that lonely sailors mistook them for beautiful, mythical mermaids. But as it turns out, the muse behind these beguiling sea nymphs was instead the dugong – a rather ungainly, gentle and ...

For much of 2019, Thailand’s biggest internet celebrity was an aquatic mammal with a nose resembling a vacuum cleaner nozzle. Marium the infant dugong, from her dolphin-like tail to her stubby snout, ...

Waves rocked our boat as we glided across Henoko Bay in Okinawa, Japan. Below us, fish and sea turtles danced through an underwater wonderland of colorful corals and swaying seagrass. But as we peered ...