Two dugongs stranded earlier this week on an island in eastern Indonesia, but only one survived and returned to the sea. With conservation authorities unable to go to the site due to COVID-19 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Personnel from DENR-12 Protected Area Management Office of the Sarangani Bay Protected Seascape (PAMO-SBPS), assisted by Bantay Dagat (sea patrol), conduct a necropsy on the lifeless sea mammal called ...

Just like birds and mammals carrying seeds through a rainforest, green sea turtles and dugong spread the seeds of seagrass plants as they feed. Our team at James Cook University’s TropWATER Centre has ...