steller's sea cow
81West Indian Manatee — Taxobox name = West Indian ManateeMSW3 Shoshani|pages=93] status = VU trend = down status system = iucn3.1 status ref = IUCN2007 | assessors = Deutsch, C.J., Self Sullivan, C. Mignucci Giannoni, A. | year = 2007 | id = 22103 | title = Trichechus… …
82List of extinct animals of Asia — The list of extinct animals of Asia features the animals that have become extinct along the history in the Asian Continent.Prehistoric extinction* Sri Lanka lion (Sri Lanka, 37.000 years BP) * Steppe Wisent (north and central Asia, end of last… …
83mammal — mammallike, adj. /mam euhl/, n. any vertebrate of the class Mammalia, having the body more or less covered with hair, nourishing the young with milk from the mammary glands, and, with the exception of the egg laying monotremes, giving birth to… …
84List of extinct animals of North America — This is an incomplete list of extinct animals of North America. This list covers only extinctions from the Holocene epoch, a geological period that extends from the present day back to about 10,000 radiocarbon years, approximately 11,430 ± 130… …
85D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson — Sir D Arcy Wentworth Thompson CB FRS FRSE (2 May 1860, Edinburgh – 21 June 1948, St Andrews) was a Scottish biologist, mathematician, and classics scholar. A pioneering mathematical biologist,[1] he is mainly remembered as the author of the 1917… …
86Rytiodus — Taxobox name = Rytiodus status = fossil fossil range = Miocene regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Sirenia familia = Dugongidae genus = Rytiodus species = R. capgrandi binomial = Rytiodus capgrandi binomial authority =… …
87sirenian — noun Etymology: New Latin Sirenia, from Latin siren Date: 1883 any of an order (Sirenia) of aquatic herbivorous mammals (as a manatee, dugong, or Steller s sea cow) that have large forelimbs resembling paddles, no hind limbs, and a flattened tail …
88Holocene extinction event — [ thumb|right|150px|The Dodo, a bird of Mauritius, became extinct during the mid late seventeenth century after humans destroyed the forests where the birds made their homes and introduced animals that ate their eggs.] The Holocene extinction… …
891768 — Year 1768 (MDCCLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday of the 11 day slower Julian calendar). Events of 1768 January June * January 9 Philip… …
901741 in science — The year 1741 in science and technology involved some significant events.Astronomy*Zoology* Steller’s sea cow is discovered (extinct by 1768).Awards*Copley Medal: John Theophilus DesaguliersBirths* March 17 William Withering, British physicist… …
