On the brink: The Endangered Species Act 07:57. The dugong, also known as a "sea cow," is extinct in China, scientists say. Researchers from Zoological Society of London and the Chinese Academy of ...

A dugong in the Philippines has two sets of companions, streamlined remoras and striped golden jacks. The golden jacks grab small shrimps that the dugong stirs up and don’t bother the creature.

Dugongs, on the other hand, really get in there, transforming into single-minded food vacuums and leaving a literal cloud of sand in their wake. We have all been there, and yet, there is something ...

The dugong, a gentle marine mammal that has frequented China’s southern waters for hundreds of years, has become functionally extinct in the country, a new study said on Wednesday.

Case in point: the dugong. As you’ll see in this amazing YouTube video, dugongs are famous for moving along the ocean floor like vacuum cleaners, appearing to suck up.

If you want to see a dugong in the wild, you'll need to know how to distinguish them from manatees. The good news is that this is very easy, because despite looking similar, there are some key ...

The dugong, a species of so-called sea cow that roams the ocean floor in Asia and Africa and is said to have inspired ancient legends of mermaids, has been spotted off China’s southern coast for ...

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 ...

An orphaned baby dugong that attained celebrity status in Thailand has died with plastic waste lining its stomach, prompting a surge of mourning on the internet. The female dugong, named Marium ...

Though dugongs are protected in the US under the Endangered Species Act, some are still killed by motorboat collisions and poachers. There are about 100,000 dugongs left, the majority in ...

The dugong, a gentle marine mammal, has officially been declared extinct in China, a study has found. In findings published by the Zoological Society of London in the journal Royal Society Open ...

Marium, the 'Sweetheart' Dugong from Thailand, Dies After Ingesting Plastic Veterinarians found tiny pieces of plastic in Marium's intestines during an autopsy on the popular, young dugong By ...