Millions of years ago much of Mississippi was underwater and dugongs, sometimes called sea cows, roamed the warm coastal ...

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 ...

Smithsonian researchers and collaborators at Qatar museums describe a sea cow bonebed in Qatar that is among the richest deposits of marine mammal fossils in the world Salwasiren was a miniature ...

Scientists discover a 21-million-year-old dwarf sea cow that grazed in the Arabian Gulf, revealing how it transformed marine ...

The Andaman coast was one of very few places in the world with a viable population but then dead dugongs began washing up. Now half have gone ...

BANGKOK — 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 marine ...

The undersea world is an amazing one. There are countless species beneath the surface, all engaging in fascinating activities that you have to see to believe. Case in point: the dugong. As you’ll see ...

A rare baby dugong spotted in Indonesia’s Alor archipelago highlights the success of community-led efforts to restore ...

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay’s founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Few creatures better embody the notion of peaceful coexistence ...

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. FILE - Serena, a dugong, swims at the Toba ...