\u2713Dugong, a species of \u2018sea cow\u2019 that roams the ocean floor in Asia and Africa, has not been spotted off China’s southern coast for centuries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u25cf New Findings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713Dugong has become the first large vertebrate to go functionally extinct in China’s coastal waters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713It is the result of a rapid population collapse there that began in the mid-1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2713\u201cFunctional extinction\u201d means that even if some dugongs are alive off China’s coast, their numbers are too small to maintain a viable population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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