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, ...

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 ...

Boaters off Indonesia saw a baby dugong swimming and seemingly playing with two adult dugongs in a first-of-its-kind sighting for the area. Screengrab from Kabola Fishermen’s Communication Forum/Engky ...

Keen-eyed Magnetic Island locals are being treated to an extraordinary spectacle this winter as a booming number of dugongs have been spotted making their way close to shore. WATCH THE VIDEOS. Dania ...

A threatened sea mammal has been spotted exploring waters that are now undisturbed thanks to the coronavirus pandemic lockdown. Drone video footage released by the Department of National Parks shows a ...

For much of 2019, Thailand’s biggest internet celebrity was an aquatic mammal with a nose resembling a vacuum cleaner nozzle. Marium the infant dugong, from her dolphin-like tail to her stubby snout, ...

The real threats to dugongs and turtles – climate change and marine debris – are not being addressed. RECENT CALLS FOR a ban on legal traditional hunting of dugongs and marine turtles imply that ...