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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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The marine biologist looked back to a 2004 incident in Massachusetts, when water jets were used to drive a great white shark away from a shallow pond.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

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

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

He had thought he might end up as biologist or a mathematician.

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell

He met students carrying out field work in the wetland waters asking them about their exams and ambitions to be marine biologists.

From BBC ● Oct. 28, 2026

To investigate how microorganisms digest biodegradable plastics, University of Konstanz biologists Harry Lerner and David Schleheck studied the entire process of microbial decomposition.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 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

Rosemary and Peter Grant, a married pair of evolutionary biologists who studied songbirds on Daphne Major, a small volcanic island in the Galápagos archipelago, are the subjects of Jonathan Weiner’s “The Beak of the Finch.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Intuitively, biologists had long guessed that the best place to visualize a gene was the embryo.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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