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This poor thing also went the same way as the Dodo. Hydrodamalis gigas was hunted to extinction within just 27 years of it's discovery by westerners. Slow moving and unable to submerge, it was easy prey for the hunters.It's fat was used as a substitute for butter and also as a smokeless and odourless oil for lamps.

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Discovered in the Bering Sea, the huge, monogamous Steller’s sea cow lasted only 30 years before being hunted to extinction Steller's Sea Cow, Cow Names, North American Animals, Largest Snake, Sea Cow, Habitat Destruction, American Animals, Interesting Animals, Big Animals

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Discovered in the Bering Sea, the huge, monogamous Steller's sea cow lasted only 30 years before being hunted to extinction | The Vintage News

In 1741, German naturalist Georg W. Steller traveled with Vitus Bering on his voyage in the North Pacific. On Bering's Great Northern Expedition, the

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Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas). Illustration and photo-reconstruction of a Stellar's sea cow eating laminaria in the shallow waters near an island where a sailboat is anchored. Steller's sea cow is an extinct marine mammal that reached 2 metres long and weighed 4 tonnes. It's small head smoothly passed into a huge trunk, which ended with a forked tail, resembling a whale's tail. As cetaceans Steller's sea cow has no hind pair of legs. It was found along the North Pacific coast. It was di Steller's Sea Cow, Cow Eating, Sea Bed, Bering Strait, Cow Illustration, Prehistoric Wildlife, Sea Illustration, Sea Cow, Small Head

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Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas). Illustration and photo-reconstruction of a Stellar's sea cow eating laminaria in the shallow waters near an island where a sailboat is anchored. Steller's sea cow is an extinct marine mammal that reached 2 metres long and weighed 4 tonnes. It's small head smoothly passed into a huge trunk, which ended with a forked tail, resembling a whale's tail. As cetaceans Steller's sea cow has no hind pair of legs. It was found along the North Pacific coast. It…

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The Steller’s sea cow – the last of the Pleistocene megafauna – Moira Risen 12 images Pleistocene Megafauna, Pleistocene Animals, Steller's Sea Cow, Beast Reference, Herbivorous Animals, Manatee Florida, Aleutian Islands, Keystone Species, Sea Shepherd

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Steller's sea cow - a surviving giant of the PleistoceneThe Steller’s sea cow was one of the last survivors of the megafauna of the Pleistocene to die out in our era. The giant marine mammal was discovered in 1741 by Georg Steller - naturalist of the expedition led by Danish explorer Vitus Berin

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Geologists find sea cow fossil on Santa Rosa.

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The Stellar’s Sea Cow was an enormous marine mammal related to the manatee and to the dugong that live until very recently — until ~1772 or so. Following “discovery” in 1742…

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Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) amongst a kelp forest. Now sadly extinct due to hunting pressure in the 18th Century. Also featured are the Rough... Steller's Sea Cow

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