The Steller’s sea cow, on the other hand, once inhabited the frigid waters of the northern Pacific Ocean. While manatees typically reach about nine feet in length, Steller’s sea cows could ...

Famed for their gentle, slow-moving nature, sea cows (manatees and dugongs) are aquatic mammals closely related to the elephant. Now, their bone chemistry can be revealed for the very first time, ...

MOSCOW, November 17. /TASS/. A whole skeleton of a Steller’s sea cow, an extinct sirenian, which died out in the 18th century, was found at the Komandorsky Nature Reserve in Kamchatka ...

Using mathematical models, researchers have been able to identify how an extinct mammal - the Stellar’s Sea Cow - likely impacted kelp forests prior to overhunting by European colonizers.

November marks the 45th year for Manatee Awareness Month, a special time to recognize and honor Florida’s sea cows that was ...

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This big underwater creature has a large flat tail. It's called a sea cow. It lives in the sea and eats sea grass. But it doesn't look much like a cow, does it? Sea cows are great swimmers.

Over the course of his career, study co-author and University of South Florida anthropologist Thomas Pluckhahn realized that ...

November marks the 45th year for Manatee Awareness Month, a special time to recognize and honor Florida’s sea cows that was designated by former Florida Gov. Bob Graham in 1979. This month also ...