Sirenian Family (Fig 1) (IMAGE)

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Sirenian Family (Fig 1)

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Four surviving members of the sea cow family tree are compared to Stellar’s sea cow, an Aleutian animal nearly twice the size of an African elephant that was hunted to extinction two centuries ago. (Christy Horton from Heritage & Sieffert, PeerJ Fig. 1)

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Christy Horton from Heritage & Sieffert, PeerJ Fig. 1

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