aquatic

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Built in 1927 and once the largest aquatic facility in Los Angeles, the pool has been dry since 2020.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2026

The erudite and engaging historian Lincoln Paine unfolds our relationship to the aquatic planet for the past 5,000 years.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 17, 2026

Concentrations of the chemicals were sometimes up to 45 times above safe levels, with the situation shown to be killing aquatic insects.

From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026

This adaptation appears repeatedly in the fossil record among fish eating animals, including aquatic ichthyosaurs, semi aquatic crocodile and flying pterosaurs.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 2026

It is an antique term for physician, and also for the aquatic worm sanguisugus, used for leeching.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas