A drawing of the extinct Steller's sea cow Biodiversity Heritage Library via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY 2.0 For millions of years, gigantic sea cows weighing several tons swam in shallow waters ...

DURHAM, N.C. — Zoologists refer to manatees and dugongs as “sea cows” but a simple internet search might return the more playful moniker “floaty potatoes.” Now, imagine a 24,000-pound version, twice ...

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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 ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on seagrasses. A newly described fossil site in Qatar reveals that ancient sea cows ...

In a new study, scientists said that the extinct Steller’s sea cow impacted kelp forests in the North Pacific by browsing at the surface, which would have encouraged the growth and strengthening of ...

While only four species of slow-moving aquatic herbivores of the order Sirenia remain on Earth, many different kinds of sea cows lived over the past 47 million years. Sea cows have lived along the ...

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 ...

An artistic reconstruction of a herd of ancient sea cows foraging on the seafloor. Note to editors: Photos of the Al Maszhabiya site and fossils, an artist’s reconstruction of the new species in life ...