By 1768, the animals were extinct-just 27 years after they had been formally discovered. The slaughter of Steller’s sea cows was spurred by the Europeans’ desire for fur coats and hats ...
MOSCOW, November 17. /TASS/. A whole skeleton of a Steller’s sea cow, an extinct sirenian, which died out in the 18th century, was found at the Komandorsky Nature Reserve in Kamchatka ...