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A Trove of Sea Cow Fossils in Qatar Reveals a New Species That Munched on Seagrass 21 Million Years Ago
The findings suggest that sea cows have been engineering ecosystems in the Persian Gulf for tens of millions of years ...
Fossils from Qatar have revealed a small, newly identified sea cow species that lived in the Arabian Gulf more than 20 ...
Scientific history was made yesterday as a major international study, published in the rigorously peer reviewed open access ...
Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...
Tiny sea cow species, Salwasiren qatarensis, shaped seagrass meadows for 20 million years, offering clues for protecting dugongs.
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As an ancient cow species foraged for seagrass, it shaped its surroundings around 21 million years ago
Meet Salwasiren qatarensis, a small, ancient sea cow species whose fossils were found in Qatar, in one of the world’s biggest marine mammal bonebeds.
A massive fossil site in Qatar has uncovered the world’s richest sea cow bonebed and a new species, Salwasiren qatarensis.
21 November 2007 Doha - Qatar has embarked on a major initiative to protect a unique sea mammal, dugong, which faces extinction in the Arabian Gulf waters. The Supreme Council for Environment and ...
A collaborative research between Qatar University (QU) and ExxonMobil is using drone technology to study the dugong population dynamics in the northwest coast of Qatar, home to the second largest ...
A major international study published in the peer-reviewed open-access journal, PeerJ, has formally identified a new species ...
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Fossils reveal sea cows have engineered Arabian Gulf's seagrass ecosystems for over 20 million years
Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on ...
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