Dugongs have also been dubbed "sea cows", thanks to their pivotal role in maintaining seagrass fields, which play an important role in offering homes for other marine species, preventing coastal ...

Discover the fascinating story of a sea cow fossil in Venezuela, providing insights into prehistoric marine life and predator ...

A nearly seven-foot-long Dugong, a marine mammal commonly known as “sea cow”, which got entangled in the fishing net, was ...

OTSU, Shiga Prefecture--Researchers have developed a new way to locate habitats of the elusive dugong, an endangered type of sea cow, by analyzing DNA left behind in the water from its skin and ...

The carcasses were brought to Colombo for a post mortem. The Dugong known as the Muhudu Ura in Sinhala is one of the marine mammals that live in the coastal waters of Sri Lanka. Also called a Sea Cow, ...

Two brave fishermen from the Philippines began the year by saving the life of a trapped dugong or sea cow, the ancient sea mammal generally credited with being the origin of the mermaid myth. Manila, ...

There are only 95,000 to 100,000 dugongs left in the world. Australia has 85,000, the Arabian Gulf and Red Sea bordering countries have approximately 7,300, while the remainder are located in the ...

Trichy: A fishing crew from Thanjavur district rescued a 7ft-long dugong which was trapped in a fishing net and released into the sea.