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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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I had asked Roden-Reynolds, a public health biologist, to inspect my yard because a lone star tick bit me as I was chopping wood last fall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

"You can swim for hours and hours along the reef in the lagoon, just skeleton after skeleton. It's all dead," said marine biologist Austin Bowden-Kerby, who visited last year and documented the devastation.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Mr. Barash is an evolutionary biologist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Marine biologist Dr Cathy Lucas, from the University of Southampton, said Morgan's video showed the animal's incredible length.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Her dad is a chef and wants to open a restaurant of his own, and her mom is a marine biologist.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

A team of biologists working in the early morning hours Friday collected the olive ridley sea turtle eggs and transferred them to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, the agencies said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 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

And the author draws on the warning of Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, evolutionary biologists who cautioned against reading every trait as a perfect adaptation.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

“A couple of biologists called a few months ago, but I never called back.”

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen




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