Why are dugongs endangered? The cousin of the manatee has been put on the vulnerable list, elevating awareness about the marine animal's population.

A giant, gentle sea creature that belongs to the manatee family is now “functionally extinct” in China with no sightings recorded since 2008, a new study said Wednesday. The dugong, a strictly ...

The group announced 3,000 additions to its IUCN Red List of more than 150,000 threatened species. The dugong is among 700 now deemed at risk of extinction.

A rare fossil has provided a snapshot of what was an exceptionally unlucky day for a prehistoric sea cow. The now-extinct species of dugong, a manatee-like marine mammal, was swimming in the sea ...

The dugong, a relative of the fabled manatee, has been declared functionally extinct in the region.

The dugong is a large and docile marine mammal that lives from the eastern coast of Africa to the western Pacific Ocean.

WHEREAS the manatee of the tropical Atlantic has been the subject of widespread interest in recent years, the related dugong of the Indo-Pacific region has received scant attention. An increasing ...

A fossil reveals how a now-extinct species of dugong was swimming in the sea about 15 million years ago when it was preyed upon by a crocodile and a tiger shark.