colonized

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He adds: "We are particularly interested in investigating the environments they colonized and speciated in, especially in ecosystems dominated by large apex predators such as abelisaurids and megaraptorans."

From Science Daily • May 29, 2026

Before Europeans colonized North America, bald eagles were pretty much everywhere there was a river, lake, or stream large enough to support sizable fish.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2026

It accounts for more than 200,000 jobs and has colonized entire neighborhoods.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

First colonized by Scandinavian missionaries in 1721, and ruled by Denmark alone from 1814, Greenland was isolated from the world during the age of empire.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026

But believers in the fluke-colonization theory have been surprised by recent discoveries that still other islands, lying to the east of New Guinea, were colonized soon after New Guinea itself, by around 35,000 years ago.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond