Looking for Miracle: why have so many dugongs gone missing from Thailand’s shores?

The Andaman coast was one of very few places in the world with a viable population but then dead dugongs began washing up. Now half have gone ...
BND

‘Gentle giant’ spotted stopping for a snack off coast of India. Watch ‘rare sighting’

Divers off the coast of the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean spotted an ocean creature stopping for a meal. Debal Das via Unsplash In the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, the seafloor is sandy ...
Miami Herald

‘Displaced’ sea cow appears in ‘unusual’ spot — and prompts warning in Australia

“Rare sightings” of a “displaced” dugong, or sea cow, living in the Tweed River prompted a warning from officials to boaters to be careful. Photo from Ray Aucott via Unsplash A dugong, also known as a ...
CNN

Abu Dhabi’s dugongs: The ocean’s skittish grazers that inspired tales of mermaids

Legend has it that the inspiration for mermaids comes from an elusive sea mammal, so skittish that it flees at the first sight of a human. It’s an animal that features heavily in the folklore of ...
EurekAlert!

Ancient manatee relative reveals that sea cows have engineered the Arabian Gulf’s seagrass ecosystems for over 20 million years

Smithsonian researchers and collaborators at Qatar museums describe a sea cow bonebed in Qatar that is among the richest deposits of marine mammal fossils in the world Salwasiren was a miniature ...