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fauna

[faw-nuh] / ˈfɔ nə /


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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

Ms. Fernando struck upon the premise of her research after joining some Sri Lankan naturalists to document the flora and fauna of the Gulf of Mannar, which once constituted the British Crown’s richest pearling grounds.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 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 county, local agencies, utilities and property owners are in a constant battle with the flora and fauna just beyond fencelines and backyards.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 26, 2026

None but a few extremely remote islands escaped man’s notice until the modern age, and these islands kept their fauna intact.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

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

With hunting of large mammals common almost everywhere today, the answer to our question, we speculated, could well be zero or at best very few places left on Earth with intact large-mammal faunas.

From Scientific American Feb. 22, 2013

“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

Of the general paleontological facts, of the general aspects of the various faunas in various parts of the world, during some roughly indicated period of geologic time, we may be reasonably sure.

From A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open by Theodore Roosevelt




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