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The species is traditionally considered to have been exterminated by 'blitzkrieg'-style direct overharvesting for food, but it has also been proposed that its extinction resulted from a sea urchin population explosion triggered by extirpation of local sea otter populations that eliminated the shallow-water kelps on ...
-The last Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) population on the Commander Islands (Russia) was wiped out in the second half of the 18th century due to sailors and fur traders hunting it for the meat and fat.
-Steller's sea cows were wiped out by hunters in the 18th century less than 30 years after they were first discovered by Arctic explorers.
-By 1768, less than three decades after they were first described, the Steller's sea cow was extinct.
CAN WE BRING BACK THE STELLER'S SEA COW?
Dugongs might still be carrying some of its DNA, which could be how scientists bring them back.
