Las extinciones históricas: la vaca marina de Steller, el poder de las imágenes y el problema de la evidencia en la zoología del siglo XIX.

This paper analyzes the itineraries of the depictions of Steller’s sea-cow, an aquatic mammal from the Bering Insel that went extinct in 1768, leaving behind almost no evidence of its former existence. This story of images travelling around can be read as a case study of how “proxy images” worked, but also as a good example of how images work to creatr new realities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]