The now-extinct sea cow species, Salwasiren qatarensis, was discovered thanks to an examination of 21-million-year-old ...

Gigantic and extinct, Steller’s sea cows would have played an important role in shaping their environment. Universal History Archive / Getty Images This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online ...

Some members of the sea cow species called dugongs spend their days feasting on seagrass in the Persian Gulf. By doing so, the bulbous marine mammals act as “ecosystem engineers,” reshaping the ...

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 ...

#4 Steller's Sea Cow - Extinct 1768 In 1741, Georg Wilhelm Steller documented the Steller's sea cow, an animal that Europeans discovered living only around the Commander Islands in the Bering Sea, ...

On a lawn inside the Bronx Zoo, rows of headstones display multiple animal species, making for an eerie display during the ...

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 ...