sea cow in a sentence

1. dugong or sea cow.

2. [Sirenian Gallery: Photos of Cute Sea Cows]

3. rams' skins dyed red, sea cow hides, acacia wood.

4. Lumbering Sea Cows Were Once Plentiful and Diverse

5. She brought her sea cows with her, and bore seven children.

6. To get to Jamaica, however, the sea cows had to adapt, Benoit said.

7. the manatees are sometimes referred to as sea cows as they resemble cows on land.

8. The site would have supported a freshwater lake when this sea cow lived some 48 million years ago.

9. In 2008, however, researchers uncovered a fragment of sea cow bone from sediments in Djebel Chambi National Park in Tunisia.

10. He reported the following; "Birds innumerable and many sea cows (dugongs) on the beach" and he named the island ‘Bird Island’.

11. This marine herbivore, often called a sea cow, is part of a group known as Sirenians, which includes only four living species.

12. He swims out and finds the sea cow trapped in a net and frees it slowly because it was scared of his sword, forcing him to free it by hand.

13. A fragment of skull bone from a sea cow found in Tunisia (right) compared with a fossil of the same bone from an ancient species found in Jamaica.

14. Over 500 species of fish reside in the waters surrounding Dubai as well as the second largest colony of endangered sea cow or ‘dugong’ in the world.

15. Dugongs, or sea cows, are the only strictly marine herbivorous mammals, and these rare animals are now being photographed by fishermen in the Philippines.

16. a particularly dramatic example of this trend is the demise of steller's sea cow, a giant relative of the dugong formerly at home in the arctic atlantic;

17. There are even finds of endemic species from Kampuchean Vietnamese seas and from other nearby countries, some of which are extremely rare, like the dugong or sea cow.

18. Manatee season runs Nov. 15 through March 31, and the non-profit center will be offering Manatee Tours that give visitors the chance to see the lovable sea cows up close.

19. "The dispersal of sea cows to Jamaica, maybe through the Atlantic Ocean, proves that adaptation to sea waters was a key event of their subsequent successfulness," he said.

20. All three animal groups – elephants, sea cows and Dassies – descended from a common ancestor millions of years ago and therefore share physiological similarities in teeth, leg and foot bones.