dugongs
- plural of dugong.
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The region hosts the world's second-largest population of dugongs -- herbivorous marine mammals known as "sea cows" that are listed as vulnerable -- with an estimated 5,000 to 7,500 individuals.
From Barron's ● Mar. 17, 2026
Although the bones share similarities with those of modern dugongs, they also show differences.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 12, 2025
Seagrasses provide shelters, nurseries, and feeding grounds for thousands of species, including endangered animals such as dugongs, stalked jellyfish and smalltooth sawfish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 28, 2025
This characteristic, called pachyosteosclerosis, is absent in living cetaceans - the group including whales, dolphins and porpoises - but present in sirenians, another marine mammal group including manatees and dugongs.
From Reuters ● Aug. 2, 2023
Could the sounds have proceeded from the throat of some of these human-like denizens of the deep, known as dugongs, lamantins, manatees, and the like?
From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Reid, Mayne
