Dugongs, or sea cows, are thought to have inspired tales of mythical mermaids. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Dugongs, the pudgy ...

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The dugong, a gentle marine mammal that has frequented China’s southern waters for hundreds of years, has become functionally extinct in the country, a new study said on Wednesday. Research by the ...

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 ...

In shallow coastal waters of the Indian and Pacific oceans, a seagrass-scrounging cousin of the manatee is in trouble. Environmental strains like pollution and habitat loss pose a major threat to ...

Declared functionally extinct in China just three years ago, the dugong — a marine mammal famously associated with mermaid legends — has been sighted again in the nearshore waters of the South China ...

New Delhi: In a win for dugongs—the marine mammal—and India’s larger marine conservation story, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) put forth a motion to recognise India’s first ...

CHENNAI: The International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) World Conservation Congress 2025 adopted a motion on Thursday recognising India’s first dugong conservation reserve in Tamil Nadu’s ...