The post The Gentle Giant That Science Discovered and Destroyed in Three Decades appeared first on A-Z Animals. It took just 27 years for us to discover, formally describe, and drive a sea cow species ...
An artistic reconstruction of a herd of ancient sea cows foraging on the seafloor. In southwest Qatar, fossils of a new species of ancient sea cow, Salwasiren qatarensis, were found in 21-million-year ...
Fossils reveal sea cows have engineered Arabian Gulf's seagrass ecosystems for over 20 million years
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 ...
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