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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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Maya Khosla, a wildlife biologist for hire and filmmaker and poet between gigs, was getting on-the-job training in a new role: detective.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026

Lucky for skeptics, Nadira Goffe interviewed a whale biologist about how realistic the film is.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

Dr Martyn Kurr, a marine biologist from Bangor University told BBC News that non-native or "biofouling" species, like the carpet sea squirt, can outcompete native wildlife for valuable nutrients.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

Shendure led the research alongside Dr. Chengxiang Qiu, a molecular and systems biologist at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

The animals were gone by the time the biologist arrived, but he found some fresh scat, which he dutifully bagged up and dispatched to a U.S.

From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson

State biologists who monitor salmon nests in the Sacramento River estimated on Sept. 4 that about 20% of the eggs may not survive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

But California’s biggest river is now so warm that biologists expect a significant number of the eggs won’t hatch.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

For more than six decades, evolutionary biologists have debated whether an unusual genetic system shared by ants, bees and wasps helped drive one of nature's most sophisticated forms of social organization: eusociality.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 15, 2026

Marine biologists and fisheries scientists believe human influence is the main cause - impact on climate; hydropower systems that eels have to migrate through; pollution and contamination; introduction of exotic parasites; and overfishing.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

Cell biologists look; geneticists count; biochemists clean, the scientist Arthur Kornberg once said.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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