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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The IDCC is to be established under the TN-SHORE (Tamil Nadu Sustainably Harnessing Ocean Resources and Blue Economy) initiative to conserve the “endangered” Dugong species — a marine mammal also ...