Dugongs, Beloved Vegetarian ‘Mermaids,’ Declared Extinct Near China
Pour one out for the dugong today — the bulbous yet endearing undersea mammalian has hit a worrisome raw bench mark of metal money declination . Scientists have declare the beast “ functionally extinct ” in part of the South China Sea , ina studypublished in the journal Royal Society Open Science . hunt , the fishing manufacture , aquaculture , and other human activity that ’s degraded the seagrass habitat is to blame , according to the researchers ....