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Steller's sea cow is one of the most famous recently extinct species, on account of both it's huge size (said to grow to 7m) and the speed with which it was driven to extinction (c.27 years, 1741-1768).
Apr 13, 2021 · The Steller’s sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) is an extinct species from Sirenia order (Fig. 1A), which inhabited the coastal areas of the North Pacific Ocean (including the Bering Sea) during...
- Fedor S. Sharko, Eugenia S. Boulygina, Svetlana V. Tsygankova, Natalia V. Slobodova, Dmitry A. Aleks...
- 2021
Despite their rich fossil history, there are only four surviving species of sirenians or sea cows, the only fully aquatic herbivorous mammals. The three species of manatees and the dugong live in the coastal
Jan 4, 2021 · Habitat ranges of sirenian species: West Indian manatee in green, Amazonian manatee in red, African manatee in orange, dugong in blue, Steller’s sea cow circled (yellow). Steller’s sea cows, a now-extinct species of the dugong family, was the largest sirenian and one of the few to live in cold water.
- Caspian Tigers. During their prime, Caspian tigers could be found in Turkey and through much of Central Asia, including Iran and Iraq, and in Northwestern China as well, but they went extinct in the 1960s.
- Aurochs. The aurochs is an ancestor of domestic cattle that lived throughout Europe, Asia, and North Africa. Scientists want to bring them back through selective breeding of cattle species that carry some aurochs DNA.
- The Carolina Parakeet. The Carolina Parakeet was a small, green parrot with a bright yellow head and orange face that was native to the eastern United States.
- The Cuban Macaw. The vibrant Cuban macaw lived in Cuba and went extinct in 1885 due to hunting, trading and being captured as pets. Aviculturalists are rumoured to have bred birds that are similar in appearance, but slightly bigger, because they had similar genes.
Aug 25, 2022 · While the living species of sea cows lack hindlimbs and are equipped with several anatomical adaptations that suit them to wholly aquatic lifeways, some of the earliest fossil sirenians were, by contrast, quadrupedal and amphibious.
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Our goal is that local population of the Sirenia species are recovered, and the species diversity is maintained in order to increase resilience to the effects of climate change and major sto-chastic events, especially extreme weather.
