Beasts of the Sea: the tragic story of how the ‘gentle, lovable’ sea cow became the perfect victim
海洋的野兽：‘温柔可爱’的海牛如何成为完美受害者的悲惨故事
An artist’s impression of Steller's sea cows. The huge, placid herbivores were not known to science before 1741 but within 27 years they had already been hunted to extinction by fur traders – the first marine mammal known to be eradicated by humans.
2025-10-21 992词 中等
What inspired you to write the book?I visited the Natural History Museum in Helsinki in 2016 and saw this very strange-looking skeleton of a big, bulky animal I didn’t recognise.
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