You may have heard of the FODMAP diet from a friend or on the internet. When people say “FODMAP diet,” they usually mean a diet low in FODMAP — certain sugars that may cause intestinal distress. This ...

Veganism excludes all animal foods, including dairy, eggs, meat, seafood, and products like honey. Vegetarian diets are beneficial for protecting against heart disease and type 2 diabetes, and may ...

Experience the peaceful and gentle world of a dugong with this intimate close-up video. The footage focuses on the animal's face, highlighting its wrinkled snout and sensitive whiskers, which it uses ...

Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 million years ago. The site contains the densest known collection of fossil sea ...

Doha, Qatar: Scientific history was made yesterday as a major international study, published in the rigorously peer-reviewed open access journal, “PeerJ”, officially names a new species of ancient ...

Scientific historyhas been made as a major international study, published in the rigorously peer-reviewed open access journal, ‘PeerJ’, officially named a new species of ancient marine mammal found ...

The discovery of a fossil site in Qatar reveals ancient sea cows maintained ecosystems over 20 million years ago, similar to modern dugongs. The newly identified species, Salwasiren Qatarensis, was ...

An artistic reconstruction of a herd of ancient sea cows foraging on the seafloor. Note to editors: Photos of the Al Maszhabiya site and fossils, an artist’s reconstruction of the new species in life ...

Smithsonian researchers and collaborators at Qatar museums describe a sea cow bonebed in Qatar that is among the richest deposits of marine mammal fossils in the world Salwasiren was a miniature ...

Some members of the sea cow species called dugongs spend their days feasting on seagrass in the Persian Gulf. By doing so, the bulbous marine mammals act as “ecosystem engineers,” reshaping the ...

An artistic reconstruction of a herd of ancient sea cows foraging on the seafloor. Credit: Alex Boersma More than 20 million years ago, ancient sea cows shaped the Arabian Gulf’s seagrass meadows much ...