flora
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Genetic material recovered from internal tissues included bacteria that were part of Ötzi's original gut flora.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
For those unfamiliar with these funky flora, be warned.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026
Orbiting the fish is a constellation of things and signs: flora, flags, stars, vases, moons, arrows, a human‑headed flower, a zygote and a Christian cross.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 2026
The government insists it has met all "green" requirements and has pledged to protect Great Nicobar's peoples, communities, as well as its unique flora and fauna, by establishing protected zones.
From Barron's ● May 18, 2026
Those were some of the advantages that the Fertile Crescent’s flora afforded the first farmers: it included an unusually high percentage of wild plants suitable for domestication.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Of the 1,000 or so species of floras in the park, lodgepole pine and the duff from its fallen needles and branches provided most of the fuel for the fires.
From Time Magazine Archive
The differences between the faunas and floras of these countries are too great and too radical to render it possible that any such connection should have existed except at a very remote period.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace
Greenland and Antarctica are both shrouded in ice sheets in latitudes where fossil floras prove that at other periods the climate was as mild as in England or even New Zealand.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
Edible fungi in America, 88.Ergotized grass, 217.Erysiphe, conjugation, 176.Erysiphei, polymorphism, 191.Esculent fungi, 82.European floras, 279.Examination of fungi, 289.Exotic floras, 280–5.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
All these latter, except Ulmus and Planera, have been found also in the Eastern-Australian Tertiaries, and we may therefore consider that at this period the northern temperate element in both floras was identical.
From Island Life Or the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras by Alfred Russel Wallace
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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