I was blown away by the longing for the live broadcast of the sea

Chapter 683 The Tragic History of Stella's Manatee
"Is this a manatee? Or a dugong?"

"Is it grazing on the bottom of the sea? It looks so cute!"

"It seems to be very big, will it be more aggressive?"

"Little Tiger Jiaos must be careful, but don't be eaten by this giant!"

"If it's manatees and dugongs, they are herbivores in the ocean, and they won't pose a threat to the little tiger Jiao."

"However, their shape looks a bit weird, and the size is too big, right?"

Anyway.

The audience in the live broadcast room are not professional marine biological researchers.

According to the fat body shape and physical characteristics of the body, a small number of water friends judged that this should be a manatee or a dugong.

Moreover, this kind of vegetarian marine life is not too lethal, so there is no need to worry about the safety of the little tiger jiao.

At this moment, Yue'er focused on the video sent back by Xiaohujiao.

She raised her head and said to Lin Yang, "Brother Yang, this should be a manatee. Their tails seem to be in the shape of a shovel, just like the weapons used by Drifting Monks!"

However, facing Yue'er's doubts, Lin Yang did not answer immediately.

His eyes are also locked on the extremely rare marine mammals that have been judged to be extinct and have reappeared in the sky.

Before Lin Yang made his own judgment and announced the true identity of the giant creature under the icy cold water, all the audience naturally didn't understand, and their hearts were full of the same doubts.

What kind of creature is this thing?
The time goes back to June of 1741 AD.

The famous explorer Bering led the expedition from Kamchatka to North America.

However, during their journey to complete the Pacific voyage, the ship was in distress due to a tsunami, and many crew members, including Bering, died in the disaster.

And Stella led the survivors, drifting to the waters of the Arctic Ocean, on an isolated island with no food source, they discovered a giant sea cow along the coast!
This manatee was named after Stella, and was later named 'Stella manatee'.

However, this newly discovered creature named after Stella himself caused a catastrophe because of the discovery of the person named after it!
This catastrophe lasted for 26 years, and the result was that the Stella sea cow was completely extinct!

It has become the record for the fastest extinction of life on earth.

In the shot of the live broadcast room.

Under the deep sea, the manatee that is suspected to be the cub of Stella's sea cow was captured by the camera, quietly gnawing on the seaweed on the bottom of the sea.

Its body length is about three meters. As a cub of Stella's manatee, it has almost caught up with the size of an adult walrus or a larger seal.

At this moment.

The water friends in the live broadcast room have no idea what species is captured in the camera.

After all, most water lovers are just ordinary spectators. Walruses, manatees, seals, even fur seals and sea lions are not clear.

In the eyes of ordinary people, these creatures with their forelimbs turned into fins and their hind legs turned into fish tails are generally similar.

At this moment, Lin Yang had countless emotions in his heart. After all, he was able to meet again in the extremely cold sea area in the north. This is a creature that has been judged extinct in the history of human marine life. It is really shocking!

Previously, the pictures captured in the lens were relatively blurry.

As the camera progressed, people discovered that its tail was not like that of an ordinary dugong, but a crescent-shaped tail like a fish!
This discovery has caused some water friends who are more familiar with marine life to raise their own doubts.

"My God! Have you noticed that this manatee's tail seems to be a bit special, and from its shape, it doesn't look like an adult. If it is an adult manatee, what kind of manatee does it have to look like? Size?"

According to relevant records, the extinct Stella sea cow, a large dugong belonging to the toothless manatee, can grow to about 8 meters in size and weigh 3 tons.

It can be said that it is the largest mammal in the ocean except cetaceans.

After all, Lin Yang has the ability of the system, and the information he obtained is ahead of time. When faced with all kinds of doubts from the water friends in the live broadcast room, he did not hide it.

He said bluntly: "What we are photographing now may be the calf of the extinct Stella manatee."

"Even if you say it, you may not believe it, but we did meet it"

Careful audiences can naturally hear the excitement in Lin Yang's voice. After all, this is a re-encounter that spanned nearly 200 years.

"What's a Stella sea cow? I've never heard of it."

"Is it the kind of marine life that has been extinct in the Arctic? This is simply too bizarre, incredible!"

"At first glance, you are not the ten-year-old fan of the anchor. Haven't we encountered many incredible things during our sea voyage?"

"If it's really Stella's sea cow, will the marine life world be blown up?"

"Is there any big water friend who can give me some popular science, what is Stella sea cow?"

"I only know the Tesla electric car"

Lin Yang controlled the lens of the underwater camera at a safe distance.

He didn't want to disturb the young manatee foraging.

Obviously, the Stella sea cow photographed now has passed the lactation period, but it does not yet have the size of an adult.

In short, this is a young manatee.

It uses its big mouth to forage for aquatic plants on the seabed, just like a big cow grazing turf on a pasture.

However, during the tens of millions of years of evolution in the marine environment, their feet and legs have degenerated into flippers, which makes it easier to swim in sea water.

Because modern people's understanding of the Stella manatee is only limited to the relevant residual reports. In the relevant records, the Stella manatee is an extremely docile and defenseless marine creature.

After all, before humans came and discovered them, the vegetarian Stella sea cows in the ocean had almost no natural enemies because of their huge size.

They swim in the paradise of the ocean until one day, their paradise is destroyed by hunters.

Because of the docile and unguarded character of the Stella sea cows, they hardly resisted when they were slaughtered by hunters.

They are huge in size, and their meat is relatively delicious, and their fur can also be used for trade, which has a high economic value.

Although Lin Yang didn't reveal too many details, just one sentence shocked the water friends in the live broadcast room.

He said slowly: "It took only 26 years for this sea cow named Stella to be discovered by human hunters until it became extinct."

no doubt.

As soon as Lin Yang said this, the fans in the live broadcast room were in an uproar!
It took only 26 years from discovery to extinction?
Anyway, the water friends watching the live broadcast are just ordinary viewers, and most of them don't know much about marine life.

More water lovers have never even heard of sea creatures such as the Stella manatee.

"It took more than 200 years for the dodo bird discovered by the anchor to be eaten and extinct by humans!"

"Can human hunters really extinct a species in more than 20 years?"

"This is simply too scary!"

"If it weren't for the anchor's popular science, I would never have heard of this shit!"

"It does look very docile, not aggressive at all qaq."

"Are you going to be killed because you don't resist? It's so pitiful."

"I personally think that Stella is not worthy of the name 'Stella Manatee'. It is the discoverer, but also the exterminator!"

As some water friends said.

Indeed, Stella named the Stella manatee after herself.

But in the end, these giant manatees living in the northern seas completely disappeared into the oceans of the earth because of this person, which is not a kind of irony.
Lin Yang nodded slightly. Although he didn't say much, it was obvious that he agreed with the views of the water friends.

Yueer said at this time: "If the sea cow we photographed is really related to the extinct sea cow, even if there is a certain difference, can it be renamed?"

After all, there has never been a precedent for such a thing.

Of course Lin Yang was not sure if it would work or not.

But one thing is certain, the so-called 'Stella manatee' was previously discovered in the Bering Sea and North Pacific waters.

But the manatees captured by Lin Yang and Yueer are located in the North Atlantic Ocean.

At least geographically speaking, this giant manatee habitat is different from the Stella manatee, separated by the entire Eurasian continent!

"That is to say, after Stella discovered this giant manatee, she killed them for meat?"

"This is too cruel qaq."

"From the perspective of emergency avoidance, human life is more important than anything else. It is justifiable in an emergency, but it is unreasonable to search and hunt on a large scale afterwards."

"What's wrong is that they exaggerate the deliciousness of this sea cow's meat, and the fur can keep it warm!"

"If there is no business, there will be no killing. This should be the most appropriate pity for Stella's manatee qaq."

"So, the overall number of Stella sea cows should not be too many?"

"That is to say, they have been endangered animals since they were discovered. It's just that in the era when animal protection was not perfect, they could not escape the fate of being extinct."

Lin Yang nodded and replied, "According to incomplete statistics, the overall number of Stella sea cows at that time was only more than 2000."

"Under the premise of manatee fur trade and hunting for its meat, humans will soon no longer see this sea cow in the North Pacific."

More than 200 years ago, the greed and ignorance of hunters and businessmen made this sea cow completely disappear from the history of the earth's oceans.

When Lin Yang photographed the suspected Stella sea cow in the Atlantic Ocean again, the reaction from the outside world was naturally shocking.

After all, the size of this sea cow is second to none among seal walruses and common manatee species, and it can be said to be the only one.

In the picture of the live broadcast room, the naive and cute young manatee is quietly eating seaweed.

Its appearance has shocked marine biology researchers in the professional field!
In the picture of Lin Yang's live broadcast room, although the body length of the young manatee is only more than three meters, it is still some distance compared to the adult manatee, which can grow to seven or eight meters in length.

However, the way it eats grass earnestly has attracted a lot of fans in the live broadcast room.

After learning about the past of the Stella manatee, water friends have a new understanding of this very simple and cute marine creature.

Perhaps more than 200 years ago, because of greedy hunters and businessmen, this marine life completely disappeared from the earth.

But now, seeing the light of day again, was photographed by Lin Yang again, which made people feel a lot of thoughts.

If you ignore the habitat range of the newly discovered sea cow, and only talk about other characteristics, it seems that there is no essential difference from the previous Stella sea cow.

However, because of the different habitats, they are likely to be a clade subspecies of the Stella manatee.

Even though the North Pacific Ocean and the North Atlantic Ocean are located at the northern end of the earth, because they are separated from the Eurasian continent, the span is still very large.

Of course, this does not rule out the possibility that they migrated from the Arctic Ocean.

All things have spirits, and sea cows are also creatures. When they were driven to extinction by fishermen and hunters more than 200 years ago, it is understandable that they chose to leave that land and go to a new habitat.

It is precisely because of Lin Yang's discovery that the vacancy of the second largest marine mammal in the world has been filled, and it has also made up for the regret of more than 200 years ago.

"So, the sea cow discovered by the anchor is not an ordinary species!"

"Good guy, have you made another incredible discovery?"

"It's over, it's over. During the anchor's sea voyage, we have seen too many incredible things, but this time alone makes me feel a little embarrassed."

"This kind of sea cow can be found in the northern Atlantic Ocean, which can be regarded as making up for the regret of more than 200 years ago!"

"It's a good thing!"

"You don't need to be so sentimental, I strongly suggest that the anchor can rename this manatee!"

"That's right, after all, it would be ironic to call it Stella's Sea Cow."

More than 200 years ago, because of the discovery and naming of Stella, the delicious meat and expensive fur of this huge manatee became a medium for businessmen to obtain profits.

This is also an important reason that directly leads to their disappearance from the sea world.

Today it is today.

The sea cow was discovered again, and it is obviously inappropriate to continue to use the name Stella Sea Cow.

What's more, the sea area where Stella discovered the sea cow was the North Pacific Ocean, and the sea area where Lin Yang is now is the North Atlantic Ocean.

From the habitat of sea cows, there is already a world of difference.

Yue'er looked at the image returned from the screen of the live broadcast room, she put her hands on her chin, and looked very carefully.

The huge manatee in the picture has a round body, its head is very small, the front end is relatively flat, and its mouth is slightly protruding. If you look closely, you can even see the thin hair.

On the same big head, the eyes and ears are very small, and the whole body is brown-gray. Their skin looks very thick, and there are many folds.

Perhaps because of being too fat, you can even see a little parasitic shellfish on their skin.

For example, the parasitic barnacles on humpback whales, because the humpback whales photographed by Lin Yang before let everyone know that in the ocean, any creature covered with wrinkles and moving slowly is easy to Parasitized by shellfish organisms.

So do sea turtles, humpback whales, and manatees.

However, shellfish can be removed if seabirds clean them up for them.

Because there are no teeth, this kind of sea cow is also called toothless sea cow.

Like bovids, they graze like cattle grazing grass on a pasture.

While chewing, they kept shaking their heads, trying to uproot the seaweed.

In the vast seabed, a lot of algae grow and reproduce, so they don't need to worry about the source of food.

Lin Yang said to the water friends in the live broadcast room: "This kind of manatee generally lives in groups. Basically, several or more than a dozen of them gather together to form a group. That is to say, there should be other people around this manatee. sea ​​cows exist."

"They seem to like eating grass very much, and they eat it with great relish!"

"I want to taste the taste of seaweed qaq."

"As marine vegetarians, they don't have much to eat other than seagrass."

"It's delicious to eat. Such a big body should eat a lot of seaweed, otherwise, there is no way to accumulate so much meat!"

Facing the doubts of the water friends in the live broadcast room.

Lin Yang was blunt and answered patiently: "An adult sea cow can eat more than half of the seaweed within the size of a football field per meal, but there are so many seaweeds produced within the ocean, even if it eats hundreds of catties in one meal, can still reproduce.”

In the vast pastures on the seabed, the huge sea cows can be said to be invincible.

Looking at the simple and docile sea cow in the live broadcast room.

Water lovers can't help but sigh, how could such a harmless, cute and simple giant marine creature suffer such bad luck and be extinct by hunters more than 200 years ago?

Fortunately, Lin Yang's new discovery makes up for the regret of more than 200 years ago!

They've been rediscovered, and most likely given new names!
The Stella manatee will become history and be sealed in the annals of marine life, and it is always a warning to people to protect the environment and cherish endangered creatures.

at the same time.

The iucn World Conservation Union naturally also paid attention to Lin Yang's new discoveries during the live broadcast.

In this regard, almost all animal protection organizations around the world have issued relevant statements!
While they expressed their shock, they also expressed regret for the history of the extinction of the Stella manatee.

It was an age of despair, and in a new age, too, a new hope for the species was ushered in.

[Very shocked!Mr. Lin Yang may have made a new discovery in the North Atlantic Ocean. This species, which was once named 'Stella Sea Cow', has completely disappeared from the ocean world in just over 20 years. It is embarrassing Sigh, but the reappearance of the manatee figure and being discovered again also shows that living in the North Atlantic Ocean, there are still giant manatee species all over the place!They are extremely docile marine organisms that pose no threat to humans and play an important role in the balance of marine ecology. 】

【Hope this discovery will attract the attention of relevant conservation organizations and help sea cows thrive in the North Atlantic Ocean, which will play a vital role in increasing the diversity of marine species!Thanks again to Mr. Lin Yang for his discovery! 】

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