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DENR divers spot a dugong and green sea turtle in Pujada Bay during Ocean Month biodiversity monitoring and cleanups.

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The dugong, a gentle giant of the ocean, is now "functionally extinct" in China, a new study said Wednesday. There have been no records of dugongs in China's waters since 2008, researchers from the ...

Scientists have used historic DNA to discover some of the highest-risk populations of the endangered dugong are so genetically distinct, losing them would be the equivalent of losing a species of ...

BANGKOK, Thailand — A baby dugong, a large ocean mammal, that has developed an attachment to humans after being separated from its mother and getting lost off southern Thailand is being nurtured by ...

The survival of the elusive, blubbery sea-trawler known as the dugong is hanging in delicate balance amid ever-increasing development, tourism and pollution off of Egypt’s Red Sea coast. The dugong, a ...

Marine mammals are dependent on seagrass which is being rapidly reduced by human impact The dugong is now functionally extinct in China after widespread degradation of their habitat and historical ...

Veterinarians found tiny pieces of plastic in Marium's intestines during an autopsy on the popular, young dugong Marium, the dugong that became known as Thailand’s “sweetheart” after going viral in ...

Populations of a vulnerable species of marine mammal, numerous species of abalone and a type of Caribbean coral are now threatened with extinction, an international conservation organization said ...