#Pinktober2025 Day 21: #StellersSeaCow
This relative of the #dugong was massive, growing up to 30ft in length, weighing up to 10t, & covered in a thick layer of blubber to survive frigid waters. It was hunted for its meat, fat, & hide, & went extinct in 1768, less than 30 years after its discovery.

Beasts of the Sea: the tragic story of how the ‘gentle, lovable’ sea cow became the perfect victim Iida Turpeinen’s novel has been a sensation in her native Finland. On the eve of its UK publication, she talks about her compulsion to tell of the sociable giant’s plight

This book is pure 💎!
Read it!
#StellersSeaCow #kirjataivas #Elolliset #mustread

Steller's sea cow: the first historical extinction of marine mammal at human hands | Natural History Museum

Poor Steller's Sea Cow....

www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/stellers-sea-co...

#Sirenians #StellersSeaCow #Nature #MarineMammal

My lovely team bought me a semi-fiction book about the Steller's sea cow (Hydrodamalis gigas) last year. I liked it so much that they bought another one for this Christmas! One of the very few intact skeletons in on diplay in the Natural History Museum in Helsinki. #stellersseacow