Fishermen in Thanjavur district successfully rescued an eight-foot-long dugong, a protected marine species, after it was ...

Thaaragai Aarathana from Karapakkam, whose weekly calendar is marked by three days set aside to dive in and dredge up plastic ...

The marine mammal was a relative of dugongs and manatees ... The Steller’s sea cow, on the other hand, once inhabited the frigid waters of the northern Pacific Ocean. While manatees typically ...

OTSU, Shiga Prefecture--Researchers have developed a new way to locate habitats of the elusive dugong, an endangered type of sea cow, by analyzing ... expanses of the ocean,” said Yoshihito ...

I write about the ocean, climate change ... Aleutian Islands and are part of Alaska. With the Sea Cow gone, the scientists used dugongs as an analogous species, because of their close relation ...

A "sea cow" that ... classified dugongs as vulnerable to extinction worldwide due to a myriad of threats, including being caught up in fishing gear or struck by boat propellers, ocean pollution ...

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 ... character of the sea. Weighing in at almost ...

The dugong is one of four living species ... Its closest modern relative, Steller’s sea cow, which lived in the northern Pacific Ocean, was hunted to extinction in the 18th century The ...

THANJAVUR: A dugong, an endangered marine mammal, caught in a seine net in the early hours of Sunday near Adirampattinam was rescued and released back into the sea by fishermen. According to ...

There are only 95,000 to 100,000 dugongs left in the world. Australia has 85,000, the Arabian Gulf and Red Sea bordering countries have approximately 7,300, while the remainder are located in the ...