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    Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) is an extinct sirenian described by Georg Wilhelm Steller in 1741. At that time, it was found only around the Commander...
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    Sirenia (redirect from Sea cow)
    two distinct families: Dugongidae (the dugong and the now extinct Steller's sea cow) and Trichechidae (manatees, namely the Amazonian manatee, West Indian...
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    to Western science. Notable among his discoveries was the Steller's sea cow and Steller's sea eagle. His exploration of the Kamchatka Peninsula and the...
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    Dugong (redirect from Fork-tailed Sea Cow)
    and their closest relative, the Steller's sea cow, split off from a common ancestor in the Miocene. The Steller's sea cow became extinct in the 18th century...
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    The Cuesta sea cow (Hydrodamalis cuestae) is an extinct herbivorous marine mammal and is the direct ancestor of the Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas)...
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    length, making the Steller's sea cow among the largest mammals other than whales to have existed in the Holocene epoch. Steller's sea cow was first described...
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    extinct Steller's sea cow (H. gigas). In 1988, fossils of sea cows were discovered in Hokkaido and were originally assigned to the Takikawa sea cow, a newly...
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  • docufiction film Tales of Sea Cow, about a fictional rediscovery of the extinct Steller's sea cow, a sirenian from the Bering Sea; and his "Icelandtrain"...
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    Commander Islands (category Islands of the Bering Sea)
    include such species as Steller's eider, Pacific golden plover and Aleutian tern. Raptors of note include the rare Steller's sea eagle and gyrfalcon. Other...
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  • Steller's sea ape is a purported marine mammal, observed by German zoologist Georg Steller on August 10, 1741, around the Shumagin Islands in Alaska. The...
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    population of kelp—the sea urchin's and Steller's sea cow's main food source—leading to the extinction of the Steller's sea cow. The hunting of an already...
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    species, the dugong (Dugong dugon), one recently extinct species, Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), and a number of extinct genera known from fossil...
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    Marine mammal (redirect from Sea mammal)
    seals. Commercial hunting led to the extinction of the Steller's sea cow, sea mink, Japanese sea lion and Caribbean monk seal. After commercial hunting...
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  • A time-hopping historical novel, it deals with the discovery of Steller's Sea Cow and the resonances of that discovery in following centuries. The book...
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    for "female seal", from Russian "мать" = "mother". Sea Vitch (walrus) Sea Cow (Steller's sea cow) Burgomaster Gull (species) (same as Glaucous gull)...
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    Steller's Sea Cow, Hydrodamalis gigas. Marine Mammal Science, 11(3):391-394 Turvey, S.T; Risley, C.L (2006). "Modelling the extinction of Steller's sea...
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    Dusisiren is an extinct genus of dugong related to the Steller's sea cow that lived in the North Pacific during the Neogene. Dusisiren is a sirenian exemplar...
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    mammals that includes the dugong, other manatees, and the extinct Steller's sea cow. Manatees are herbivores, have developed vocal communication abilities...
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    mandanoensis, an undetermined species of Eumetopias sea lion, and the recently extinct Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas). Sharks present were the great...
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    Sirenians are closely related to elephants. The largest sirenian was the Steller's sea cow, which reached up to 10 m (33 ft) in length and weighed 8,000 to 10...
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    Starfish (redirect from Sea stars)
    extinct: Steller's sea cow) That May Have Shaped California's Kelp Forests". The New York Times. Retrieved 5 December 2022. "Fact Sheet: Sea Anemones"...
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    recently extinct subfamily of the sirenian family Dugongidae. The Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was hunted to extinction by 1768, while the genus...
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    more turbulent waters, something inferred for the similarly buoyant Steller's sea cow. The animal's affinity for shallow waters is congruent with the interpretation...
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    Bering Sea is also home to colonies of crested auklets, with upwards of a million individuals.[citation needed] Two Bering Sea species, the Steller's sea cow...
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    Rytiodus (meaning Rytina, "wrinkled", an old name for Steller's sea cow) is an extinct genus of sirenian, whose fossils have been discovered in France...
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    community structure. Hunting of sea otters, for example, is thought to have led indirectly to the extinction of the Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas). While...
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    reports, Steller's sea cows have grown to 8 to 9 m (26 to 30 ft) long as adults, much larger than any extant sirenians. The weight of Steller's sea cows is...
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    as whales and seals. Commercial hunting lead to the extinction of Steller's sea cow and the Caribbean monk seal. After commercial hunting ended, some...
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    walrus, formerly abundant in nearby waters, and is not connected with Steller's Sea Cow or other Sirenia. Malcolm MacFarlane 1865 – 1867 Thomas P. Huestis...
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    tiger and Steller's sea cow are some of the more well known examples; with the bald eagle, grizzly bear, American bison, Eastern timber wolf and sea turtle...
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