Tag Archive for 'Sea cow'

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...

12-million-year-old sea cow fossils found in Papua New Guinea. Image credit: Erich M. G. Fitzgerald et al.

Scientists Find 12-Million-Year-Old Fossils of Sea Cow

Oct 2, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists from Museum Victoria, Australia, and the Smithsonian Institution have rediscovered what they claim are the oldest sirenian fossils ever...

Earliest-Known Ancestor of Sea Cows Found in Tunisia

Jan 18, 2013 by Sergio Prostak

According to Dr Julien Benoit and his colleagues from the University of Science and Technology in Montpellier, France, an Eocene skull fossil discovered...