carnivore
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While the coyote’s expressive yellow eyes nearly make you sniffle, he remains a carnivore with sharp black claws.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Myerscough said that through contacting experts, they were able to establish that it was the lower jaw of a rhomaleosaurus, a carnivore also known as a sea dragon.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
He follows a carnivore diet, picks up snakes with his bare hands, and pushes videos of himself doing pushups shirtless and in jeans.
From Slate ● Jul. 29, 2026
"It's the only dinosaur found at this site that wasn't a bird, it was a carnivore, and it was much bigger than everything else that we've found there."
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
The discovery that a wild carnivore was free in their midst created an uproar among the citizens of Zurich.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
Jean-Jacques Rousseau argued in 1762 that consumers of meat were “more ferocious than other men,” while Lord Byron, in 1819, characterized humans as carnivores who, “like the shark or tiger,” must have their prey.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Suraci stressed that large carnivores, like any species, have inherent value beyond the services they provide to human beings -- but said that failing to make the economic case would be a disservice to them.
From Barron's ● Aug. 5, 2026
"It may be the early ancestor of all our marsupial carnivores."
From Science Daily ● Jul. 19, 2026
These carnivores can go days, even weeks, without food.
From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2026
I’m a carnivore, from a long line of carnivores going back five hundred million years and who knows how long before that.
From "Adrift" by Paul Griffin
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