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	AMIQ: Stellar's Sea Cow
		He was the only scientist to see and describe the sea cow, an amazing animal that would became extinct at the hand of man just 27 years later.
		The sea cow belonged to the sirenian family, which includes dugongs and manatees.
		The sea cow's evolutionary sacrifices made it an easy target for man. The rush for marine furs started a stampede more intense than the Alaska gold rush 150 years later.
	www.amiq.org /galleries/seacow/seacow.html (301 words)

	Welcome To Kingdom Of Animalia-Sea Cow
		Sea Cow are also called STELLER'S SEA COW (Hydrodamalis gigas), large aquatic mammal of the order Sirenia that formerly inhabited the frigid waters around Bering and Copper islands in the Bering Sea.
		Steller's sea cow was discovered in 1741 and was described by Georg W. Steller, who accompanied Vitus Bering on his voyage of discovery.
		The sea cow was avidly hunted for food and fur by Russian sealers.
	www.geocities.com /mickey_prasad/seacow.html (139 words)

	Steller's Sea Cow
		Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) is an extinct large sirenian mammal formerly found near Asiatic coast of the Bering Sea.
		The sea cow grew up to 35 feet long (10.7 meters) and weighed up to three-and-a-half tons, much larger than manatees and dugongs.
		Wherever sea cows had been feeding, heaps of stalks and roots of kelp were washed ashore.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Steller%27s_sea_cow.html (243 words)

	Steller's Sea Lion - MSN Encarta
		Steller's Sea Lion, largest sea lion, named for Georg Wilhelm Steller, a German naturalist who studied and classified this seal, along with the now-extinct Steller’s sea cow, on an expedition to the Bering Sea in 1741.
		With bear-like skulls and sharp teeth, Steller’s sea lions are formidable carnivores.
		If a cow wanders out of the mating area or is swept off the ledge by a wave, for example, she is not likely to return.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761595594/Steller's_Sea_Lion.html (700 words)

	Recently Extinct Animals - Steller's Sea Cow - Hydrodamalis gigas
		A fossil ancestor of the Steller's Sea Cow was the
		Fossil remains of this prehistoric sea cow are known from as far south as the southern coast of California.
		Only one out of five Steller's Sea Cows hit by harpoon or rifle fire was retrieved, but the majority escaped only to die at sea from their injuries.
	home.conceptsfa.nl /~pmaas/rea/stellersseacow.htm (891 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Steller's Sea Cow
		The sea cow grew up to 7.9 meters long and weighed up to three tons, much larger than the manatee or dugong.
		Fossils indicate that Steller's Sea Cow was formerly widespread along the North Pacific coast, reaching south to Japan and California.
		Sea Cows appear in Rudyard Kipling's short story "The White Seal", where they show the title character a place of refuge from human hunters.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Steller%27s_Sea_Cow (602 words)

	Cryptozoology - Glossary (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Steller's sea cow was a member of the the order sirenia, which it shared with manatees and dugongs.
		The first sea cows were recorded by German Wilhem Steller and the Russian crew of Captain Bering's ship, the St. Peter, when it ran aground on the island of Kamchatka, in the Bering sea.
		Throughout the 1800s, reports of sea cows were common and as late as 1962 six sea-cow-like animals were sighted by whalers in the gulf of Anadyr.
	www.cryptozoology.com /glossary/glossary_topic.php?id=259 (249 words)

	Pictures of the Steller's sea cow\|Hydrodamalis gigas facts
		Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) is an extinct mammal from the order Sirenia in the animal kingdom, which also includes the manatee and dugong.
		From wikipedia on the Steller's sea cow: "There are still sporadic reports of sea cow-like animals from the Bering area, the Arctic, and Greenland, so it has been suggested that small populations of the animal may have survived to the present day.
		Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas, is also in the family Dugongidae, but the species was extirpated by humans in 1768 just 27 years after it's discovery in the North Pacific (Stejneger 1887).
	www.thewebsiteofeverything.com /animals/mammals/Sirenia/Dugongidae/Hydrodamalis/Hydrodamalis-gigas.html (582 words)

	Steller Sea Cow (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Georg Steller described the sea cow as having a length of 296 inches or 24 2/3 feet.
		The upper lip of the sea cow was spilt down the middle to allow it to grab plants.
		Steller described the sea cow's losing enough weight during the winter that their ribs were visible.
	www.asdk12.org /schools/romig/pages/alaska2/Matt%20Hawn/seacow2.html (179 words)

	Strange Science: Sea Monsters
		This image shows, from left to right, a fur seal, a sea lion and a "sea cow." Although all three marine mammals have vaguely humanlike faces with haughty expressions, the accuracy of the sea cow is as good a rendition as we are likely to get.
		By the time he was thrown into the sea, however, he had bewitched a dolphin who came to his rescue.
		Called a both sea eagle and a flying fish, this was probably a "Jenny Haniver," a forgery made by mutilating a ray to resemble a winged sea monster with a human head.
	www.strangescience.net /stsea2.htm (2842 words)

	The Steller's Sea Cow - ExploreNorth
		Steller's sea cows were the largest, and the only cold-water members of the scientific order Sirenia, to which manatees and dugongs also belong.
		Feeding on sea grasses (in the case of the Steller's sea cow, primarily kelp), they are the only aquatic herbivorous mammals.
		The meat of the sea cow, which was most often referred to as being similar to veal, remained fresh for much longer than any other available meat source, making it extremely valuable to the Russian sailors and hunters.
	www.explorenorth.com /library/yafeatures/bl-seacow.htm (798 words)

	Geotimes - December 2001 - Sea Cow
		The closest living land relative of the modern sea cow is the elephant.
		The aquatic adaptations of this sea cow include a large retracted nasal opening near the eye sockets on the skull.
		The heavy density of the sea cow’s ribs acts as ballast.
	www.geotimes.org /dec01/NNseacow.html (826 words)

	California Academy of Sciences - Science Under Sail (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Steller was the naturalist on the voyage of 1741.
		Wherever sea cows had been feeding, heaps of stalks and roots of kelp were washed ashore.
		These people killed the sea cows primarily for food and their skins, which were used to make boats.
	www.calacademy.org /exhibits/science_under_sail/biodiversity.html (1858 words)

	Island Sun - History - British Virgin Islands
		It is not sure who named the village of Sea Cow's Bay, but for years residents of the village grappled with the notion of having their little nested village called "Seek A Bay" and not Sea Cow's Bay.
		One cannot really tell how Sea Cow's Bay got the nick name "Hog City", but perhaps it was due to the fact that the residents kept a lot of pigs, or that pigs were in abundance in that village.
		Sarah Bay was another area where the residents of Sea Cow's Bay would use for swimming, and the bathing of race horses.
	www.islandsun.com /seacow062499.html (739 words)

	ADW: Hydrodamalis gigas: Information
		Hydrodamalis is known to have occurred in cold, shallow, coastal marine waters rich in algae and sea grass.
		Hydrodamalis retained the keratinous rostral pads found in other sea cows, and the presence of interlocking ridges and grooves on these pads as well as reinforcement of the rostrum may be evidence that the animal used these pads to masticate its food.
		It is known that sea urchin populations can severely deplete sea grass and algae communities when otters are removed, and as this happened on the Bering Sea islands, the sea cows would have faced a new competitor for food.
	animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Hydrodamalis_gigas.html (2133 words)

	Recently Extinct Animals - Species Info - Steller's Sea Cow
		A fossil ancestor of the Steller's Sea Cow was the Dugong Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis cuestae).
		Yakolev, a first-hand observer of the Steller's Sea Cow, claims that an order was given to the headquarters of the outpost on the Komandorskiye Islands on 27 November 1755, prohibiting hunting of the sea cows (translated in Domning, 1978).
		The closest living relatives of the Steller's sea cow is the dugong (Dugong dugon) followed by the three manatee species; the West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus), the African manatee (Trichechus senegalensis), and the Amazonian manatee (Trichechus inunguis).
	www.petermaas.nl /extinct/speciesinfo/stellersseacow.htm (1794 words)

	Bagheera: An Endangered Species and Endangered Animal Online Education Resource
		The Steller’s sea cow was the largest of the sirenians (a group of marine mammals that includes manatees and dugongs).
		The year was 1741 and the sea cow was already rare; there were perhaps 1,000 to 2,000 individuals.
		Bering’s crew killed many of the remaining sea cows for their meat and hides, and subsequent expeditions to the area killed the rest.
	www.bagheera.com /inthewild/ext_seacow.htm (141 words)

	Legged Sea Cow Fossil Found in Jamaica
		Commonly known as sea cows, sirenians are plant-eating mammals that spend their entire lives in water.
		Domning thinks sea cows may have made the transition from land to aquatic creature to benefit from a resource that wasn't being fully exploited—in this case, sea grass—and to avoid competition with other animals.
		Sea grass, he noted, has been present in coastal ecosystems since the Cretaceous era, 146 to 65 million years ago.
	news.nationalgeographic.com /news/2001/10/1010_jamaicaseacow.html (469 words)

	Our Beautiful World: Sealife of Kamchatka
		First called sea bears by early Europeans, the Callorhinus, the ursinus, or the Northern fur seal is a fascinating, highly social and territorial sea mammal.
		After their pups are born mating season begins and the females make frequent trips out to sea to collect food and to gain weight for their growing pup's main meal, milk.
		Pups must learn to swim as soon as possible in order to be ready for the journey out to sea; it is a mere 125 days after they are born that the young fur seals are considered weaned, and are expected to fend for themselves as soon as they get the courage.
	www.vulkaner.no /t/kamchat/sealife.html (881 words)

	SDNHM: Fossil Sea Cow (Dugong) Discovered
		On 23 May 2000 Pat Sena, a field paleontologist with the San Diego Natural History Museum, discovered a complete skull of the giant Pliocene sirenian (sea cow) Hydrodamalis cuestae at a construction site at Otay Ranch in Chula Vista.
		Hydrodamalis cuestae is a fossil species considered to be ancestral to Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas).
		View of newly discovered sea cow skull encased in plaster and burlap field jacket.
	www.sdnhm.org /research/paleontology/seacow.html (369 words)

	Untitled Document
		This is a picture of the Bering Sea, the main habitat of the Steller Sea Cow.
		The Steller Sea Cow was discovered in 1741 in the ice cold waters of the Bering Sea.
		The range of the Steller Sea Cow in earlier times was limited to the coastal area of the Komandorskiye and Blizhnie Islands in the Bering Sea.
	www.asdk12.org /schools/romig/pages/alaska2/Matt%20Hawn/seacow.html (157 words)

	Geotimes - December 2001 - Sea Cow
		The closest living land relative of the modern sea cow is the elephant.
		This is the first indication of when the sea cows began to adapt to a more aquatic environment.
		The aquatic adaptations of this sea cow include a large retracted nasal opening near the eye sockets on the skull.
	www.agiweb.org /geotimes/dec01/NNseacow.html (826 words)

	The UnMuseum - Seals and Manatees
		The seal is an aquatic mammal that could explain some sea serpent or lake monster sightings.
		Awkward on the land, they are fast and agile in the sea, using their two forward flippers and large flat tails to race through the water.
		Many believe that the manatee and it's cousin, the sea cow, may have inspired the tales of mermaids, though it would take a particularly lonesome sailor to mistake the face of one of these creatures for a beautiful woman.
	unmuseum.mus.pa.us /seals.htm (364 words)

	SDNHM Fossil Mysteries Field Guide: Extinct Sea Cow
		There is evidence that the sea cows were often injured or suffocated by ice floes and were not able to find enough food to stay healthy.
		Steller observed that the sea cows fed on algae near or on the surface, and may not in fact have been able to submerge the entire body, although they were apparently able to keep their heads under water for as long as five minutes.
		Steller's sea cows were gregarious, and young ones were kept in the middle of the herd for protection.
	www.sdnhm.org /exhibits/mystery/fg_seacow.html (987 words)

	Sea Shepherd - The Beginning of the End for Life as We Know it on Planet Earth?
		The peril faced by other classes of organisms is less thoroughly analyzed, but fully 40 percent of the examined species of planet earth are in danger, including perhaps 51 percent of reptiles, 52 percent of insects, and 73 percent of flowering plants.
		Water transports nutrients to the land and transports waste to the sea or more specifically the estuaries and salt marshes that function as the liver for the earth, cleansing the water of the toxins.
		Already the world’s housecats consume more fish than all the world’s seals and we have made the cow into the largest aquatic predator on the planet because more than one half of all fish taken from the sea is converted into meal for animal feed.
	www.seashepherd.org /editorials/editorial_070504_1.html (2730 words)

	Fossil Sea Cow
		Like cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) sea cows lack hind limbs and are thus restricted to life in the water.
		Sea cows are not sexually dimorphic, so we can't tell if it was a male or a female.
		The sea cow fed on algae and sea grasses, pulling up the vegetation with the horny pads in the front of its mouth.
	www.santacruzpl.org /history/spanish/seacow.shtml (587 words)

	Saving Manatees
		A. Steller's sea cow is named after the naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller.
		The survivors of the Saint Peter told stories of the sea cows on Bering Island after their return to Russia, and the Steller's sea cow was hunted to extinction within 27 years of its discovery.
		"Sea cow" is a common term for manatees and dugongs.
	www.savingmanatees.com /faq06.php (336 words)

	Sea Cow review - Restaurants - Time Out London
		Sea Cow’s interior isn’t a million miles away from traditional chippies, although chunky wooden tables encourage eating-in, and a large icebox at one end of the counter boasts fish brought daily from the coast or Billingsgate Market.
		No dejected-looking cod cuts or rubbery soles akin to those on a Londoner’s shoe; the menu instead offers the likes of whole sea bass, red snapper and gilthead bream, all cooked to order and with a wine list tailored to accompany the day’s catch.
		Seasonal specials such as mahi mahi help steer the Sea Cow into the waters of 21st-century dining.
	www.timeout.com /london/restaurants/reviews/10239.html (326 words)

	Call of the Siren - Manatee & Dugong Research, Education, & Conservation
		Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) is also in the family Dugongidae (Reynolds and Odell 1991), but the species was extirpated by humans in 1768 just 27 years after it's discovery in the North Pacific (Stejneger 1887).
		Steller described a giant sea cow and its habits, but was vague in his accounts of abundance and distribution.
		Indeed, many of the expeditions are reported to have wintered on Bering Island for the express purpose of collecting sea cow meat for the remainder of their 3-4 year journey to the Aleutian Islands and America.
	www.sirenian.org /caryn.html (1265 words)

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