New research reignites debate over the size of this extinct giant, also suggesting it looked unlike a great white ...

They were called sea cows because they lived in herds and fed on seagrass near the water’s surface. Sadly this amazing ...

MOSCOW, November 17. /TASS/. A whole skeleton of a Steller’s sea cow, an extinct sirenian, which died out in the 18th century, was found at the Komandorsky Nature Reserve in Kamchatka ...

In 1975, after the totoaba was declared endangered, Mexico outlawed fishing ... transfer half of the remaining vaquitas into protected sea pens until their safety in the wild could be assured.

Some extinct species of sea cows weighed up to 8 tons and were 10 metres long, and are thought to have been mistaken for mythical ‘sirens’ by sailors in the past. Over millions of years, they evolved ...

Stellar's Sea Cow (Extinct since 1768) Steller's Sea Cow was discovered in the Bering Sea by a Russian expedition in 1741. The giant seal-like creature, exploited for its meat and fat, was hunted ...

they have translated the song of a marine mammal - the 'Steller's Sea Cow' - a species, which was until now thought to be extinct since 1768. The rediscovery in 2007 off the coast of Greenland is ...