Manatee

Manatee
West Palm Beach, Florida (FL), US
Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully-aquatic marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. The name comes from the Spanish manatí, which itself comes from a Carib word meaning "breast." They comprise three of the four living species in the order Sirenia, the other being the dugong. The Sirenia are thought to have evolved from four legged land mammals over 60 million years ago, with the closest living relatives being the Proboscidea (elephants) and Hyracoidea (hyraxes).
Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully-aquatic marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows. The name comes from the Spanish manatí, which itself comes from a Carib word meaning "breast." They comprise three of the four living species in the order Sirenia, the other being the dugong. The Sirenia are thought to have evolved from four legged land mammals over 60 million years ago, with the closest living relatives being the Proboscidea (elephants) and Hyracoidea (hyraxes).
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Pdunn
@ 2007-05-10 14:28:32
This has to rate up there with one of the better finds! Very cool.
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kjfitz
@ 2007-05-11 10:25:20
I can't take full credit though. Google Sightseeing posted the GM links to this site and I started wondering if there might be BEV views of the same. There were. But I agree, very cool. Not as cool as a house on fire or four jets in formation, but still cool.

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