The dugong (sea cow) population on HCM City's Con Dao Island, the only known habitat of the species in Vietnam, is facing an ...

A dugong, an endangered marine mammal often dubbed the “mermaid,” washed ashore on Con Dao Island (Ho Chi Minh City) in an ...

Just two years after being declared extinct, the dugong has been sighted again in the South China Sea, a sign of progress in ...

The dugong was first spotted surfacing to breathe on July 8 by patrol personnel from Yongshu Reef's environmental protection ...

The dead dugong was found along the coast of the Sarangani Bay Protected Seascape, which straddles 215,950 hectares of sea ...

Sea cows like manatees and dugongs graze for hours each day, consuming up to 100 pounds of nutrient-rich seagrass daily.

Chinese scientists have recently confirmed the presence of a dugong - one of the oldest marine mammals - in the coastal ...

These elusive aquatic mammals are said to have inspired mermaids – but with dugong habitats shrinking globally, they are benefiting from a conservation program in Abu Dhabi that’s restoring ...

The herbivorous dugong was classed as a vulnerable species in 1982 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Hunters like Munsa in Bintan, a cluster of islands between Sumatra and ...

The world's largest health study of dugongs in Moreton Bay provides critical clues for helping conserve the enigmatic marine mammal, especially in other locations where numbers are falling.

Human activities have threatened dugongs worldwide. Now, the marine animal is "functionally extinct" in China, a Wednesday study concluded.