One of the most unique marine mammals living in the Persian Gulf is Dugong dugon, commonly referred to as the dugong, or the " sea cow ".

Sirenia also includes Steller's sea cow, extinct since the 18th century, and a number of taxa known only from fossils.

Hydrodamalis gigas, Steller's sea cow, could reach lengths of 8 meters.

Steller's sea cow, extinct since 1786, was hunted into extinction by humans.

* The Steller's sea cow, discovered on Bering Island in 1741, is driven to extinction.

Steller ensured the voyage recorded the wildlife it encountered, discovering and describing several species of plant and animal native to the North Pacific and North America during the expedition ( including the Steller sea cow and Steller's Jay ).

It is the only living representative of the once-diverse family Dugongidae ; its closest modern relative, Steller's sea cow ( Hydrodamalis gigas ), was hunted to extinction in the 18th century.

Other common local names include " sea cow ", " sea pig " and " sea camel ".

The two extant families of sirenians are thought to have diverged in the mid-Eocene, after which the dugongs and their closest relative, the Steller's sea cow, split off from a common ancestor in the Miocene.

The Steller's sea cow became extinct in the 18th century.

Steller's sea cow ( Hydrodamalis gigas ) was a large, herbivorous marine mammal.

Although the sea cow had formerly been abundant throughout the North Pacific, by 1741, when it was first described by Georg Wilhelm Steller, chief naturalist on an expedition led by explorer Vitus Bering, its range had been limited to a single, isolated population surrounding the uninhabited Commander Islands.

Within 27 years of discovery by Europeans, the slow-moving and easily-captured Steller's sea cow was hunted to extinction.

The sea cow was also a slow swimmer and apparently was unable to submerge.

Fossils indicate that Steller's sea cow was formerly widespread along the North Pacific coast, reaching south to Japan and California.

By 1768, 27 years after it had been discovered by Europeans, Steller's sea cow was extinct.

The sea cow would have been easy prey for aboriginal hunters, who would likely have exterminated accessible populations with or without simultaneous otter hunting.

In any event, the sea cow was limited to coastal areas off islands without a human population by the time Bering arrived, and was already endangered.

It is described as over 7 m long with a mass of 5000 kg, which are far in excess of what a dugong would measure and weigh, though they would be appropriate for Steller's sea cow, which was to be found in colder northern waters, although it had already been extinct for a century by then.

In contemporary literature, the Steller's sea cow appears in a book of poetry, Species Evanescens, by Russian poet Andrei Bronnikov.

The book examines the personality of Georg Steller and depicts the Kamchatka expedition during which the discovery of the Steller's sea cow was made.

* Steller's sea cow information from the AMIQ Institute

Hesiod states that the genitals " were carried over the sea a long time, and white foam arose from the immortal flesh ; with it a girl grew.

337 – 45 ), listening to his father's accounts of his own sea voyages as a merchant The father probably spoke in the Aeolian dialect of Cyme but Hesiod probably grew up speaking the local Boeotian dialect.

Both exports and imports of fish and sea products grew significantly in the recent years, reaching correspondingly $ 2, 415 and $ 2, 036 millions in 2008.

Allied concern grew large when, in early July 1942, the IJN began constructing a large airfield at Lunga Point on nearby Guadalcanal — from such a base Japanese long range bombers would threaten the sea lines of communication from the West Coast of the Americas to the populous East Coast of Australia.

From these points the dike grew as ships deposited till into the open sea in two parallel lines.

"... so soon as he had cut off the members with flint and cast them from the land into the surging sea, they were swept away over the main a long time: and a white foam spread around them from the immortal flesh, and in it there grew a maiden ..."

* The Lernaean Hydra-The many-headed sea monster which when one of its heads was cut off grew two more.

As communities established themselves on the shelves, the reefs grew upwards, pacing rising sea levels.

This boy grew strong, nourished by the strength of the earth, the ice-cold sea, and the blood of swine.

With darkness the sea was inseparably connected by the Celts, and, as soon as the dark twin was born and named, he plunged headlong into his native element ... Beautiful legends grew up around his death.

When the sea retreated again at the end of the 13th century the places in the region grew.

: There lived a singer in France of oldBy the tideless dolorous midland sea. In a land of sand and ruin and goldThere shone one woman, and none but she. And finding life for her love ’ s sake fail, Being fain to see her, he bade set sail, Touched land, and saw her as life grew cold, And praised God, seeing ; and so died he.

From these points, the dike slowly grew by ships depositing till into the open sea in two parallel lines.

Originally constructed on a salt marsh, over the centuries the area became a freshwater wetland, as an offshore barrier grew up, preventing sea water from getting access to the area around the circle.

On the second day of Sinbad's tale-telling — but the 549th night of Scheherazade's, for she has been breaking her tale each morning in order to arouse the interest of the homicidal king, and make him spare her life for one more night — Sinbad the sailor tells how he grew restless of his life of leisure, and set to sea again, " possessed with the thought of traveling about the world of men and seeing their cities and islands.

The zoo grew to thirty fenced acres and included a monkey house and a pool built for three donated sea lions.

However, the sea grew angry with the artificial city and rose to destroy it.

A priory of Canons Regular was established on the site in 1153, a few miles from the sea in the northern part of Norfolk and it grew in importance over the following centuries.

The parish of Faversham ( Feversham ) grew up around an ancient sea port on Faversham Creek and was the birthplace of the explosives industry in England.

This depression and the high eustatic sea levels existing during the Cretaceous allowed waters from the Arctic Ocean in the north and the Gulf of Mexico in the south to meet and flood the central lowlands, forming a sea that transgressed ( grew ) and regressed ( receded ) over the course of the Cretaceous.

Vegetables had to come from the northwest, fish had to be from the East sea, seasonings and sauces had to come from ginger that grew in the south, sea salt had to come from the north.

The islands were earlier inhabited by Māori of the Ngāti Wai tribe who grew crops and fished the surrounding sea.