Rewriting the history of an extinction—was a population of Steller's sea cows (Hydrodamalis gigas) at St Lawrence Island also driven to extinction?
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...
Published in: | Biology Letters |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
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Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2014
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Online Access: | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4261872/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25428930 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0878 |