Caitlin O'Kane is a New York City journalist who works on the CBS News social media team as a senior manager of content and production. She writes about a variety of topics and produces "The Uplift," ...

THE Philippine Red Cross (PRC) proudly partnered once again with Bombo Radyo Philippines and Bombo Radyo Philippines Foundation, Inc. for Dugong Bombo 2025: A Little Pain, A Life to Gain, the largest ...

A rescued baby dugong — a plant-eating marine mammal who looks a bit like a vacuum cleaner — is getting some TLC in captivity, as veterinarians take the unusual step of treating him away from his ...

Fishermen in the Philippines are using Android apps and smartphones to track dugongs in the Philippines, in a bid to help save them from extinction. The fisherman capture data to upload to an internet ...

Feb. 24 (UPI) --Experts said a mysterious hair-covered carcass that washed up on a Philippines beach could be the badly decomposed remains of a dugong or a sperm whale. The massive carcass, which ...

Two brave fishermen from the Philippines began the year by saving the life of a trapped dugong or sea cow, the ancient sea mammal generally credited with being the origin of the mermaid myth. Manila, ...

A dugong in the Philippines has two sets of companions: one is welcome, the other is not. A dugong in the Philippines has two sets of companions, streamlined remoras and striped golden jacks. The ...

Long regarded as Sirenas or Mermaids by the mariners of old, gentle Dugongs (Dugong dugon) inhabit shallow waters of the Coral Triangle, wherever seagrass is most abundant. Long regarded as Sirenas or ...

MANILA—Efforts to save an orphaned baby dugong rescued by fishermen nearly two weeks ago failed on Sunday night, when the plant-eating marine mammal nicknamed Binu, died at the ocean park where ...