TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — A dugong, the marine mammal believed to have inspired the legendary mermaid, was spotted off the coast of Yilan on Tuesday, marking the species' first live sighting in Taiwan in ...

The dugong, an endangered marine animal species designated as a natural monument by the government of Japan, almost certainly inhabit broad areas of the Ryukyu Island chain in Okinawa Prefecture ...

A wild live dugong was found in Taiwan for the first time in 88 years, after it was accidentally caught by a fisher’s net on Tuesday in Yilan County’s Fenniaolin (粉鳥林). This is the first sighting of ...

A prehistoric dugong preyed upon by an ancient crocodile ... which are quite peculiar in appearance. "The [extraction] took ...

A dugong, caught along with fish, was released by kind-hearted fishermen who cut their nets to do so. A video of the good samaritans showed them cutting their fishing net to set free a trapped dugong.