fauna
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Furthermore, the discovery reinforces Rio Grande do Sul’s status as one of the world’s most important regions for the study of Triassic fauna.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 10, 2026
It is believed to be home to more than 100 plant species and rich invertebrate fauna, and is recognised as one of the most important chalk river habitats in England.
From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026
The ruling officially extended the social philosophy of “buen vivir,” or good living, to Ecuador’s fauna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The Channel Islands, an archipelago that includes three additional islands outside the park, are nicknamed the “Galapagos of North America” for the flora and fauna found only there.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
His siblings would recall him careening about, hurdling flora, fauna, and furniture.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
The winding evolutionary paths that these feathered faunae took to become so diverse, however, remains a mystery.
From Science Magazine ● Apr. 4, 2024
This would be the more important as, with the exception of Brazil, hardly anything is known of the shore faunae upon the greater part of the South American coast.
From Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence by Louis Agassiz
"These repeated incursions into freshwater at the early divergence stage likely accelerated speciation, and are key factors in explaining the extraordinary hyper-diversity of otophysans in modern freshwater faunas."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 3, 2025
"This is one of the most diverse marine faunas seen anywhere, at any time in history, and it existed just before the marine reptiles and the dinosaurs went extinct," Dr Longrich said.
From BBC ● Mar. 5, 2024
When thinking of Cretaceous animal faunas, we tend to imagine the dinosaurs, pterosaurs, plesiosaurs and other big beasts.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 5, 2017
“Definitely there was a change in population leading up to the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, so something was happening to the faunas prior to the impact,” he said.
From US News ● Feb. 24, 2011
The marine faunas of Permian age in high latitudes have been interpreted as indicating mild oceanic temperatures.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
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