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 ...
Keeping tabs on the species’ populations is surprisingly hard. A new aerial effort tracks the marks they leave behind A dugong, also known as a sea cow, in a protected marine reserve in the ...
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A rare sea creature gives divers a front-row seat to unusual eating habits
Robby & Lorien, an underwater wildlife photographing duo from the USA, captured this rare dugong vacuuming the sea bed. Dugong is often seen as one of the ocean's most mysterious mammals. The ...
A rare sighting of a baby dugong off Alor in East Nusa Tenggara has sparked renewed attention to the importance of protecting Indonesia’s seagrass ecosystems and marine wildlife. A short video was ...
Fossils reveal sea cows have engineered Arabian Gulf's seagrass ecosystems for over 20 million years
Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on seagrasses. A newly described fossil site in Qatar reveals that ancient sea cows ...
The herbivorous dugong was classed as a vulnerable species in 1982 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Hunters like Munsa in Bintan, a cluster of islands between Sumatra and ...
If you liked this story, share it with other people. A rare sighting of a dugong calf in Alor, Indonesia, has renewed focus on the health of the region’s seagrass ecosystem and the species’ fragile ...
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 ...
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