This Sept. 5, 2012 photo shows Serena, a dugong at the Toba Aquarium in Toba, Japan. Dugongs, a sea mammal related to the manatee, are rare in captivity. The aquarium gift shop sells stuffed dugongs ...

BANGKOK — 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 marine ...

The dugong, a gentle marine mammal, has officially been declared extinct in China, a study has found. In findings published by the Zoological Society of London in the journal Royal Society Open ...

Decades of armed conflict in the Persian Gulf have left a toxic legacy in the region’s shallow waters, where oil from wartime spills continues to leach from contaminated sediments and threaten dugongs ...

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Veterinarians found tiny pieces of plastic in Marium's intestines during an autopsy on the popular, young dugong Marium, the dugong that became known as Thailand’s “sweetheart” after going viral in ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) - Threats to the endangered Okinawa dugong, a manatee-like marine mammal, are not enough to stop construction of a military base in Okinawa, a federal judge ruled. "We are ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Department of Environment and Conservation says a dugong spotted off the mid-west coast appears to be in sound health. The dugong was seen in waters off Jurien Bay yesterday, hundred of kilometres ...