CAMARILLO, Calif. — Researchers on the Channel Islands recently discovered an extinct sea cow buried deep in a steep ravine on Santa Rosa Island. Estimated to be up to 25 million years old ...

The 25 million-year-old fossil remains of a sea cow that lived in the waters off ... The fossil skull and ribcage were found on Santa Rosa Island, about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles, the ...

It was found in a steep ravine, exposed to the elements and erosion, as U.S. Geologic Survey scientists were mapping faults on Santa Rosa Island in July. "This sea cow may have only been exposed ...

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 ...

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.

[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 ...

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 ...

"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.

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 ...

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 ...