Data from: Rewriting the history of an extinction - was a population of Steller's sea cows (Hydrodamalis gigas) at St. Lawrence Island also driven to extinction?

• Main Authors: Crerar, Lorelei D., Crerar, Andrew P., Parsons, E. C. M., Domning, Daryl P.
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Life sciences; medicine and health care; Bering Strait; Lawrence Island; Pacific; Balaena mysticetus; Bering Island; Hydrodamalis gigas; inuit; St Lawrence Island; Steller's sea cow; Alaska; Aleutian Islands
• Online Access: http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-fo-ee9u; https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/ui/datasets/id/easy-dataset:87492

The Kommandorskiye Islands population of Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) was extirpated ca 1768 CE. Until now, Steller's sea cow was thought to be restricted in historic times to Bering and Copper Islands, Russia, with other records in the last millennium from the western Aleutian I...