ancestral

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Every year during the breeding season, the volunteers work to help toads cross the busy A525 from their land habitat to their ancestral breeding ground at the reservoir.

From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026

For the first time in more than 80 years, the fish swam in their ancestral river, where they had once been abundant.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026

More than half of all Emiratis trace their ancestral roots to southern Iran, said Mira Al Hussein, an associate fellow at the University of Edinburgh’s Alwaleed bin Talal Centre.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

By comparing how these gene clusters are arranged across hundreds of plant genomes and tracing their patterns from ancestral species to modern plants, they were able to detect conserved elements that earlier methods had missed.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

They were the most inclined to settle in one place, and longest preserved their ancestral habit of living in tunnels and holes.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien