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Georg Wilhelm Steller, the naturalist who accompanied Vitus Bering to North America in 1741, has long been a character of great interest to historians and others with an interest in Bering’s fateful ...

Few complete skeletons remain of this gentle behemoth, who was destroyed by explorers and fur traders in the Arctic. Illustration of the extinct Steller's Sea Cow (Hydrodamalis gigas), a sirenian that ...