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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 ...

During the Ice Age, giant mammals such as mammoths, sabre-toothed cats and woolly rhinoceroses once roamed Northern Europe and America. The cold oceans of the northern hemisphere were also home to ...

Holly has a degree in Medical Biochemistry from the University of Leicester. Her scientific interests include genomics, personalized medicine, and bioethics.View full profile Holly has a degree in ...

Sea cows drift quietly through tropical waters, grazing on seagrass meadows with little sign of the extraordinary evolutionary story they carry. Today, only four living species remain: three manatees ...

Turpeinen’s fantastic debut interweaves the fate of an extinct aquatic species with the stories of the people who discovered and destroyed it. In 1741, naturalist George Steller finds a previously ...

It took just 27 years for us to discover, formally describe, and drive a sea cow species to extinction. The Steller's sea cow has the dubious honor of being the first marine species to be driven to ...