Smithsonian researchers and collaborators at Qatar museums describe a sea cow bonebed in Qatar that is among the richest deposits of marine mammal fossils in the world Salwasiren was a miniature ...
Georg Wilhelm Steller, the naturalist who accompanied Vitus Bering to North America in 1741, has long been a character of great interest to historians and others with an interest in Bering’s fateful ...
Shallow‍‌‍‍‌‍‌‍‍‌ coastal waters hold on to some of the most comprehensive and detailed records of marine life from the Earth's remotest past. These recent fossil finds in Qatar have identified a new ...
The post The Gentle Giant That Science Discovered and Destroyed in Three Decades appeared first on A-Z Animals. It took just 27 years for us to discover, formally describe, and drive a sea cow species ...
Few complete skeletons remain of this gentle behemoth, who was destroyed by explorers and fur traders in the Arctic. Illustration of the extinct Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), a sirenian that ...
Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...