Sea Cow Heritage (IMAGE)

Duke University

Sea Cow Heritage

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Steven Heritage, a researcher at the Duke Lemur Center’s Museum of Natural History, holds the 33-million-year-old fossil mandible of an extinct sea cow which is related to modern manatees.

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Catherine Riddle

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