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Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was a ample herbivorous abyssal mammal. In actual times, it was the better affiliate of the adjustment Sirenia, which includes its abutting active relative, the dugong (Dugong dugon), and the manatees (Trichechus spp.). Aforetime abounding throughout the North Pacific, its ambit was bound to a single, abandoned citizenry on the arid Commander Islands by 1741 back it was ancient declared by Georg Wilhelm Steller, arch naturalist on an campaign led by charlatan Vitus Bering. Within 27 years of analysis by Europeans, the apathetic affective and calmly captured Steller's sea cow was bolter to extinction.
The sea cow grew to at atomic 8 meters (26 ft) to 9 meters (30 ft) in breadth as an adult, abundant beyond than the manatee or dugong; however, apropos their weight, Steller's assignment contains two adverse estimates: 4 and 24.3 metric tons. The accurate amount is estimated to lie amid these figures, at about 8 to 10 ft. It looked somewhat like a ample seal, but had two stout forelimbs and a whale-like appendage and the fluke. According to Steller, "The beastly never comes out on shore, but consistently lives in the water. Its case is atramentous and thick, like the case of an old oak…, its arch in admeasurement to the anatomy is small…, it has no teeth, but alone two collapsed white bones—one above, the added below". It was absolutely tame, according to Steller. They fed on a array of kelp.
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