However, global populations of dugongs have declined, owing to demand for the animal’s meat, oil and ivory. In an average week, Munsa would sneak up on a dozen of the herbivorous mammals ...

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.

Some local fishermen in Tamil Nadu'sPudukkottai released a young dugong, an endangered marine mammal, after it got caught in ...

We were quite shocked at what we saw. We really didn’t know what was going on,” Lubitz recounted. “When it spat it out, I ...

About 19-21 million years old, this dugong is the oldest marine mammal found in Central America and the first from the Pacific side of the Panama Canal. Here, the skull is seen from the side with ...

The dugong, regarded as the inspiration for ancient seafaring tales of mermaids, is a mammal species that feeds mostly on seagrass. The waters around Japan’s southwestern Nansei Islands ...

Two brave fishermen from the Philippines began the year by saving the life of a trapped dugong or sea cow, the ancient sea mammal generally credited with being the origin of the mermaid myth. Manila, ...

A two-month-old male dugong found at Koh Poda in Krabi province died on Wednesday (Aug 28) despite 18 days of intense efforts by veterinarians to nurse it back to health. The young sea mammal ...

neck. Here are the incredible details. Ask 10 people what they think the longest-living mammal in the world is and you’d probably get a range of answers, from humans to elephants to naked mole rats.

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 ...