The now-extinct species of dugong, a manatee-like marine mammal, was swimming in the sea about 15 million years ago when it was preyed upon by two animals: a crocodile and a tiger shark.

DESCRIPTION: The dugong is a marine mammal related to the manatee. It averages nine feet in length and weighs 550 to 1,000 pounds. The Okinawa dugong is slate gray to gray bronze in color and its tail ...

The dugong is a unique character of the sea. Weighing in at almost half a tonne, it is the only vegetarian marine mammal. Similar in appearance and behaviour to the manatee, but distinguished by ...

The dugong (Dugong dugon) is one of four surviving species in the Sirenia taxonomy (the other three are African, Amazonian and West Indian manatees). However, global populations of dugongs have ...

The new method was also successfully tested using a DNA sample from a dead dugong found in March 2019 in Okinawa. Manatees are a species closely related to dugongs, but manatee DNA copies cannot ...

Adapting dugong catching techniques to different cultural and environmental ... De Los Ángeles Liceaga‐Correa, María and Morales‐vela, Benjamín 2014. Ecological distribution of manatee (Trichechus ...

The now-extinct species of dugong, a manatee-like marine mammal, was swimming in the sea about 15 million years ago when it was preyed upon by two animals: a crocodile and a tiger shark. The latter ...