Fossils of Ice Age manatees discovered in Texas – Live Science

Today’s manatees
often summer off the coast of Texas and Florida, heading farther south toward warmer waters in the winter. Now, new fossils suggest that their Ice Age ancestors may have made the same migrations. 
Eight Pleistocene manatee bones ribs, jaws and other fragments found along the Texas coast reveal that manatees either lived in the area or visited it regularly between 11,000 and 240,000 years ago. This finding is surprising, because it indicates that either Texas coastal waters we…

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