Dugongs, a member of the same animal order as three species of manatees, are a vulnerable species, most commonly found ...

The case of Si Tenang the baby dugong captured national attention in 1999. Atan Hussin (Pak Atan), a fisherman in southern Johor, had accidentally caught a baby dugong in his net. Finding that it ...

BANGKOK: A two-month-old male dugong found at Koh Poda in Krabi province died on Wednesday (Aug 28) despite 18 days of intense efforts by veterinarians to nurse it back to health. The young sea ...

These herbivores are typically sighted in estuaries and shallow coastal waters around Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam and the Philippines. Dugongs are commonly known as “sea ...

The only porpoise to lack a dorsal fin, the Indo-Pacific finless porpoise can be spotted in estuaries and shallow coastal waters around Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Despite resembling whales, ...

When Piyarat Khumraksa started combing through five years of Thai government data on dugong deaths, she did not anticipate uncovering a crisis of national significance. The Department of Marine and ...

DESCRIPTION: The dugong is a marine mammal related to the manatee. It averages nine feet in length and weighs 550 to 1,000 pounds. The Okinawa dugong is slate gray to gray bronze in color and its tail ...

SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The U.S. Department of Defense must reassess the impacts of a controversial new military base on Okinawa in order to protect the endangered Okinawa dugong, a manatee-like marine ...