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Nang tien ca cuoi cung
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In 1741, German naturalist Georg Wilhelm Steller and Captain Vitus Bering set out on an expedition to the North Pacific Ocean to find a sea route from Asia to the Americas. They did not reach a new continent, but they did make another surprising discovery: the Steller's sea cow, a giant mammal – the legendary "mermaid". To this day, Steller remains the only person to have detailed records of this animal while it was still alive. The island where the sea cows lived quickly became a stopover for a series of voyages hunting for "gold" from fur. The gentle sea cows did not expect that the appearance of humans here would spell death for them. The fur hunters, who initially came for otters and foxes, discovered the delicious taste and abundant fat of the sea cow's meat. Less than 30 years after Steller's discovery, the sea cow was extinct. In 1861, the Finnish governor of Russian Alaska sent people to search for the skeleton of the giant sea mammal, hoping to recreate a legend that had disappeared hundreds of years before. Then in 1952, restorer John Grönvall at the Helsinki Museum (Finnish Museum of Natural History) took on the task of restoring the rare intact skeleton of Steller's sea cow that was sent here.
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