This November, Pig the dugong celebrated his 21st birthday at SEA LIFE Sydney Aquarium. The birthday boy was presented with a bean sprout cake and new toy at a party thrown in his honor, complete with ...

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 ...

Local wildlife experts identified one of the animals as Mawar, or Mawardi, a male dugong regularly seen around Mali Beach, WWF-Indonesia said. The other dugongs — a baby and an adult female — had not ...

Counting dugongs in the ocean can be a pretty difficult task. That's why Australian marine mammal researcher Dr. Amanda Hodgson, from Murdoch University in Western Australia, is trying to see if ...

Pour one out for the dugong today—the bulbous yet endearing undersea mammal has hit a worrying new benchmark of species decline. Scientists have declared the animal “functionally extinct” in part of ...

In 2023, the remote Great Barrier Reef coast north of Mission Beach was home to 6838 dugongs. Calves made up 9.1 per cent of ...

Australia has been identified as a global sanctuary for dugongs, following a major international report warning species are ...

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 ...

Maputo, Mozambique – Recent aerial counts performed in the Bazaruto bay, including the Bazaruto Archipelago National Park (BANP), brought out new expectations in terms of conservation of dugong ...

Recent reports of dead dugongs washing up in Sri Lanka have shone a spotlight on stalled efforts to conserve the increasingly rare and threatened sea mammal. The main threats to dugongs are hunting ...