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New from Snet: Lithologs, a new tool to create lithological/sedimentological logs online..

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STELLAR SEA COW

This adorable aquatic vacuum is a dugong. I'd always grouped the dugongs and manatees together. There are slight differences between these two groups. Both groups belong to the order Sirenia. They shared a cousin in the Steller's sea cow, Hydrodamalis gigas, but that piece of their lineage was hunted to extinction by our species in the 18th century. Dugongs have tail flukes with pointed tips —

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