Why are dugongs endangered? The cousin of the manatee has been put on the vulnerable list, elevating awareness about the marine animal's population.

Indeed, manatees and dugongs are both known to rise out of the sea like the alluring sirens of Greek myth, occasionally performing "tail stands" in shallow water. (See " Severe Scurvy Struck ...

Dugongs and manatees also live in different regions. African manatees inhabit the west coast of Africa, while West Indian and American manatees are found in coastal waters from Florida to Brazil.

An estimated 10,000 animals in two subspecies of West Indian manatee survive in waters off Florida, USA, the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Unlike their close relatives, dugongs, manatees can ...

Also at risk is the manatee’s elusive cousin, the dugong (Dugong dugon), found across the warm coastal waters of the Indian and Western Pacific oceans.In Asia, dugongs once ranged widely from ...

Like manatees, dugongs are a member of the sirenia order of sea mammals, and sirenians’ closest living relatives are elephants. (Wikipedia didn’t say anything about where Q*bert fits into all ...

Both manatees and their closely related cousins, dugongs, belong to the scientific order Sirenia, ... “In fact, manatees and dugongs have helped to perpetuate the myth of mermaids. ...

It turns out the meme lied, and dugongs and manatees are in fact different animals. Though they are in the same order, there are four living species of manatee and only one species of dugong.

Manatee relative dugongs, 700 new species now facing extinction ... the union is sounding the alarm about the dugong — a large and docile marine mammal that lives from the eastern coast of ...

Manatee relative, 700 new species now facing extinction The dugong is among 700 now deemed at risk of extinction. FILE - Serena, a dugong, swims at the Toba Aquarium in Toba, Japan on Sept. 5, 2012.

The dugong, a manatee-like creature that is thought to have inspired myths about mermaids, has been declared extinct in China. There have been no verified sightings by scientists of the dugong in ...