“Dugong predators include sharks, but the most significant threat is human actions directly impacting dugongs, such as hunting,” Juraji explained. “There are also gradual threats like ...

The remains suggest a dugong-like sea cow of the now-extinct ... “It’s super rare to find evidence of two predators on a single specimen,” Aldo Benites-Palomino, lead author of the study ...

Only three people surveyed from coastal communities in China reported seeing the dugong in the past five years. Known as the ocean's most gentle giant, the dugong's slow, relaxed behaviour is ...

Fishermen in Thanjavur district successfully rescued an eight-foot-long dugong, a protected marine species, after it was accidentally caught in their fishing net. The fishermen, trained by the ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...