For 95 pounds, visitors can cuddle, brush and stroke the cows as they lie down on a straw-covered enclosure inside a barn ...

Over a million species of animals and plants are now hanging by a thread, more than ever before in human history, says the ...

In 1827, naturalist John Audubon announced a massive discovery: the largest North American eagle. But did the Washington sea eagle exist?

Steller's sea cow was discovered in 1741 and hunted to extinction within just 27 years, leaving only bones and fossils as evidence. The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, ...

When Georg Steller, the German explorer who discovered the creatures in 1741, returned from the Great Northern Expedition, he had to leave a sea cow carcass behind. Crerar says this skeleton could ...

“Steller’s sea cow was a huge, aquatic animal that closely resembled a manatee or dugong.” This fascinating creature was first discovered in 1741 by a German naturalist named Georg Steller. Its ...

One of the most notable examples was the Steller's sea cow, a giant relative of the manatee that was driven to extinction by 1768 after being hunted for food by the trappers.

The Steller's sea cow could help the marine ecosystem in the Pacific Northwest, but efforts to bring the species back have been stymied by the lack of an adequate surrogate in today's world.

Then we ran the model again, but this time with the four-ton sea creature—the Steller’s sea cow—added in. This massive herbivore, closely related to the modern-day manatee, ...