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A long time ago Paleontologists have solved a prehistoric cold case, piecing together how a sea cow, a manatee-like creature, met an especially violent end some 15 million years ago.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024
The discovery consists of a partial skeleton, including part of the sea cow’s skull and 18 vertebrae.
—Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 6 Sep. 2024
Venezuela revealed that the ancient marine mammal was killed by a croc that sank its teeth into the sea cow’s snout before pulling it down into a death spiral — a tactic also used by present-day crocodiles to subdue their prey.
—Katie Hunt, CNN, 31 Aug. 2024
How Sharks Foster Seagrasses Along the remote coast of Western Australia, more than two decades of work shows that the mere presence of tiger sharks shapes the entire seagrass ecosystem by changing where and how big grazers, such as sea turtles and sea cows, feed.
—Michael Heithaus, Discover Magazine, 5 Aug. 2024
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1613, in the meaning defined above
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“Sea cow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sea%20cow. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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