Prior to this find, the last full skeleton of a Steller’s sea cow was found on the same island in 1987 and ended up at the Aleutian Museum of Natural History in Nikolskoye, Traverso reports.

Scientists say they’ve unearthed fossil remains of a sea cow that lived in the shallow ... cage were discovered this summer on Santa Rosa Island, about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles, the ...

with Russian hunters amply provisioned by what he thought was a nearly inexhaustible supply of sea-cow meat. The waters around the island were also teeming with sea otters, whose pelts could be ...

The sea cow remains were found on Santa Rosa Island, the second largest of the Channel Islands off the coast of southern California about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles. The remains were ...

Reconstruction of Steller measuring a Steller’s sea cow on Bering Island, July 12, 1742. Image by Leonhard Stejneger via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain). From Baja California to southeastern ...

Comparing a Steller's sea cow skull (right) with that of a modern dugong (left ... 1741 when the ship on which he was travelling became marooned on what is now Bering Island. It is after Georg that ...

"This is the only sea cow that we've ever found that's intact ... In 1987, an almost 10-foot-long specimen was discovered on Bering Island, but it has since been disassembled.

Researchers on the Channel Islands recently discovered an extinct sea cow buried deep in a steep ravine on Santa Rosa Island. Estimated to be 20 to 25 million years old, a skull and partially ...

Scientists say they've unearthed fossil remains of a sea cow that lived in the shallow waters ... cage were discovered this summer on Santa Rosa Island, in the Pacific Ocean about 50 miles ...

VENTURA - Scientists say they've unearthed fossil remains of a sea cow that lived in the shallow ... were discovered this summer on Santa Rosa Island, about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles ...