Tag Archive for 'Dugongidae'

An artistic reconstruction of a herd of Salwasiren qatarensis foraging on the seafloor. Image credit: Alex Boersma.

Sea Cow Communities Have Engineered Arabian Gulf’s Seagrass Ecosystems for Over 20 Million Years

Dec 16, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have unearthed a dense assemblage of dugong remains at the site of Al Maszhabiya in the Early Miocene Dam Formation of Qatar. This fossil...

Tiger sharks are starting to gather to take an easy piece of the large prey, as a crocodylian attacks the ancient dugongid sirenian mammal Culebratherium. Image credit: Jaime Bran Sarmiento.

Miocene-Period Dugong Was Eaten by Crocodile and Tiger Sharks, Paleontologists Say

Aug 29, 2024 by News Staff

Paleontologists have unearthed a 20-million-year-old fossilized skeleton of a species of the dugongid sirenian mammal Culebratherium with shark and crocodylian...

The four living sirenian species and the recently extinct Steller’s sea cow; figured body sizes are at relative scale. Image credit: Christy Holton / S. Heritage & E.R. Seiffert, doi: 10.7717/peerj.13886.

New Research Tracks Evolution of Sea Cows

Aug 25, 2022 by News Staff

The sea cows originated in the Tethys Sea, between southern Europe and northern Africa, during the latest part of the Paleocene epoch, according to a new...

The skull of Culebratherium alemani. Image credit: Aaron Wood.

Ancient Tusked Sea Cow Unearthed in Panama

Mar 1, 2019 by News Staff

The remarkably complete fossil skeleton of a sea cow with large incisor tusks that lived approximately 20 million years ago (Miocene epoch) has been discovered...