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 ...

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 ...

[Related: How kelp farming is helping revive the economy and ecology of a Long Island bay.] Overhunting likely drove the Steller’s sea cow to extinction and scientists believe that this change ...

"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.

The latter left one of its teeth impaled in the sea cow’s body. By analyzing the fossil, unearthed in Venezuela, researchers were able to piece together how the sea cow, which belonged to an ...

An unfortunate sea cow – a mammal that looks a bit like a seal – was torn to shreds by a crocodile in waters of modern-day Venezuela, they say. When the croc was finished with the corpse ...

The bones of an unlucky ancient sea cow has revealed more about the food chain during the Miocene epoch, around 23 million to 11.6 million years ago. Skeleton analysis indicates the creature was ...

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 ...