But the placid animals are usually content to cruise along ... which also includes the dugong (Dugong dugon) and the extinct ...

The dugong, a marine mammal with smooth, dark gray or bronze skin, a fluked tail and downturned muzzle, lives in seagrass beds in the shallow coastal waters of the Pacific and Indian oceans. The ...

one of the fishermen could be heard speaking soothingly to the dugong to keep it calm like he was speaking to a child. Finally when the net was cleared, the man could be heard asking the animal to ...

Dugongs also do not have dorsal fins – animals with these fins on their backs, such as dolphins and sharks, are more easily spotted when they are in shallow waters. When dugongs surface to ...

The dugong, an endangered marine animal species designated as a natural monument by the government of Japan, almost certainly inhabit broad areas of the Ryukyu Island chain in Okinawa Prefecture ...

Officials from the Marine and Coastal Resources Department promptly brought it to Rajamangala Aquatic Animal Hospital in Trang province for treatment. The dugong measured 102 centimetres long ...

BANGKOK: A herd of 30 dugongs have been recorded in a video ... of seagrass and the spread of plastic waste to the sea that the animals were eating and subsequently dying. The department added ...