Extinct sea cow’s underwater engineering legacy lives on today, study finds

Mongabay
Dec 20, 2022, 6:23 pm136 ptsTrending
On a Russian-led expedition in the northern Pacific Ocean in the 1740s, German botanist Georg Wilhelm Steller laid eyes on a species that captured his imagination. It looked like a manatee but was bigger than a killer whale, and it grazed similarly to a cow or horse. After Steller described the animal, it…

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