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The dugong was found to be too young and weak to be away from its mother’s care. - The Nation/ANN BANGKOK: A two-month-old male dugong found at Koh Poda in Krabi province died on Wednesday (Aug 28) ...

Qatar continues to strengthen its position as one of the world’s most important habitats for dugongs, hosting the second-largest population of the marine m ...

A race against a rising tide is underway near Palm Cove after a drone-flying team of marine experts discovered a vulnerable ...

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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 ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — A baby dugong, a large ocean mammal, that has developed an attachment to humans after being separated from its mother and getting lost off southern Thailand is being nurtured by ...

The dugong, a gentle giant of the ocean, is now "functionally extinct" in China, a new study said Wednesday. There have been no records of dugongs in China's waters since 2008, researchers from the ...

Scientists have used historic DNA to discover some of the highest-risk populations of the endangered dugong are so genetically distinct, losing them would be the equivalent of losing a species of ...

Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said ...

TOKYO — Americans may seem obsessed with animals, with day care for dogs and TV therapists for cats, not to mention the hours we spend looking at photos of cute critters on the Internet. But it’s ...