fauna
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That is provided they don’t try to steal the island’s prized fauna.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
The tails side of every newly-minted coin from the 1p to the £2 now features the country's flora and fauna - from bees to an oak tree leaf.
From BBC ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
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
Even by the end of the second summer after spraying, only meager quantities of aquatic insects had reestablished themselves, and on one stream — formerly rich in bottom fauna — scarcely any could be found.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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 include some of the oldest dinosaurs like Nyasasaurus parringtoni from Tanzania and Mbiresaurus raathi from Zimbabwe, as well as rich dinosaur faunas from South Africa, Tanzania, Niger, and Morocco.
From Science Daily ● May 30, 2024
"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
Successive faunas and floras were created only to be extinguished by general cataclysms.
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Physical Geography - Introductory
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Physical Geography - Middle School
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