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. Research by the ...

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 the ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The dugong — a marine mammal that purportedly inspired ancient mermaid tales — has been declared “functionally extinct” in China ...

Time, tales and travels have created myths of half-human, half-fish creatures across the world. While such mermaid legends live on, their likely inspiration, the dugong, is slowly dying off. Now, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Getty As if humans weren’t wreaking enough havoc to natural habitats all over the world, ...

The dugong, the charismatic marine mammal that has inspired mermaid fairy tales, has been declared functionally extinct in China, joining a lengthy list of wildlife that have either disappeared or ...

Pour one out for the dugong today—the bulbous yet endearing undersea mammal has hit a worrying new benchmark of species decline. Scientists have declared the animal “functionally extinct” in part of ...

Dugongs have been declared functionally extinct in Chinese waters. Reinhard Dirscherl/ullstein bild via Getty Images Dugongs — the elusive sea cows said to have inspired ancient tales of mermaids — ...