Drone photogrammetry reveals contrasting body conditions of dugongs across the Indo‐Pacific
Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, Volume 11, Issue 6, Page 701-718, December 2025.The monitoring of body condition has gained traction as a way to provide early warning signals of population decline, prompting conservation actions. However, the environmental and anthropogenic drivers of body condition variations are rarely investigated.
Camille Goudalier +16 more
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Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 55, Issue 6, Page 2042-2059, December 2025.ABSTRACT In 2014, a group of nine orca stranded in Te Waewae Bay, Western Southland, and their remains were collected, processed and studied in partnership with Ōraka Aparima Rūnaka. A total of 436 teeth were analysed to determine the location, type and intensity scores of tooth wear.
Carolina Loch +8 more
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Journal of Anatomy, Volume 247, Issue 6, Page 1224-1240, December 2025.This study conducts the first comprehensive morphological investigation of the mandibular symphysis in whales. Using gross anatomical observation and CT cross‐sectional data, we describe diverse joint morphologies across 74 extant and fossil cetacean taxa. Toothed whales exhibit unfused, partially fused, or fully fused symphyses.
Rebecca J. Strauch +2 more
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Evolution of Sirenian Pachyosteosclerosis, a Model-casefor the Study of Bone Structure in Aquatic Tetrapods. [PDF]
, 2010 Osteosclerosis, or inner bone compaction, and pachyostosis, or outer hyperplasy of bone cortices (swollen bones), are typical features of tetrapods secondarily adapted to life in water. These peculiarities are spectacularly exemplified by the ribs of
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Paleontological Note: Cenozoic Vertebrates from the Gulf Coastal Plain-I [PDF]
, 2017 This report notes two small marine Tertiary vertebrae faunas from east-central Mississippi including the first reported Oligocene sirenian from the southeast.
Jackson, Jr., Crawford G. +1 more
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On the supposed former Existence of a Sirenian
Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1899 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
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Occurrence of Chiorchis fabaceus (Trematoda: Cladorchiidae) in a wild Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus): New parasitological data for this imperilled sirenian [PDF]
: Parasites impact wildlife populations and ecosystem health, thereby demanding regular monitoring. As part of the national conservation effort to preserve the free-ranging sirenians in Colombia, a parasitological survey was conducted between 2011 and ...
Taubert, Anja +4 more
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Methodologies for paleontological field research: Early pliocene sirenian paleosite in southern Tuscany [PDF]
, 2011 We report the preliminary description of recent discoveries of Pliocene marine fauna from Arcille (Grosseto, Italy) and application of Ground Penetrating Radar to locate fossil vertebrate.
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From teeth to pad: tooth loss and development of keratinous structures in sirenians. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2023 Hautier L +7 more
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Ecology and Conservation of the Sirenia: dugongs and manatees [PDF]
, 2011 Dugongs and manatees, the only fully aquatic herbivorous mammals, live in the coastal waters, rivers and lakes of more than 80 subtropical and tropical countries.
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