More than 200 years ago, the Steller’s sea cow was driven to extinction by human hands. The marine mammal was a relative of dugongs and manatees, which still swim in warm tropical waters near ...
Ever since his first hard-won sightings of African manatees, award-winning marine biologist Aristide Takoukam Kamla has been ...
Famed for their gentle, slow-moving nature, sea cows (manatees and dugongs) are aquatic mammals closely related to the elephant. Now, their bone chemistry can be revealed for the very first time, ...
That's the magic mark, when manatees start their inland migration. Often called sea cows, manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) are a tropical species that exists primarily in the Bahamas ...
This big underwater creature has a large flat tail. It's called a sea cow. It lives in the sea and eats sea grass. But it doesn't look much like a cow, does it? Sea cows are great swimmers.
Its neck vertebrae are shorter, giving it a less flexible, more stable neck -- an adaptation for swimming also seen in other aquatic animals such as sea cows, and in an extreme form in modern whales.
That's the magic mark, when manatees start their inland migration. Often called sea cows, manatees (Trichechus manatus latirostris) are a tropical species that exists primarily in the Bahamas, the ...