beaver

With its short fur and broad, flattened tail, Megacauda sungei would have looked somewhat like a modern otter, beaver, or platypus.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

"One beaver wetland won't solve all of our drought problems," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 2, 2026

Among other things, the beaver and moose are both “facing right with wide eyes and a smile,” it notes in a lawsuit filed this year.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026

Three beaver kits have been born in a forest as part of a conservation programme.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

He had a cat, a beaver, a possum, a snapping turtle, and a pig that he got after my parents had a pig roast in our backyard.

From "I Will Always Write Back" by Caitlin Alifirenka and Martin Ganda

Along with pigs and beavers, cats often served as ingredients in human medicaments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Its backers say the beavers have created new wetland habitats on the site, improved water quality and made the area more resilient to flooding and drought.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

She said she saw more than two dozen dead animals, including raccoons and beavers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

"We have to make sure that we are working really closely with people who live, work and manage the areas that we're thinking about putting beavers," said Mega Adamou, of Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

She roped the beavers onto a little sled tied to another rope that circled her waist.

From "The Birchbark House" by Louise Erdrich

If Musk had quietly beavered away on something that might have helped, that would have been one thing, but that isn’t Musk’s style – he happily admits to his own arrogance.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2018

For two months, they beavered away at the problem.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2014

There were issues of "privacy" and "commercial confidentiality" here apparently, as big hackers beavered away untouched.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2013

"They have beavered away trying this and trying that and the formulations have changed over the last 50 years, but not radically."

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2011

He is a most industrious small chopper, and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it, "beavered" down, a misshapen tulip tree, which was about fifty feet high.

From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt

I didn’t set out to leverage AI, beavering away in the background while I sleep, to set my priorities every morning, and even help me regulate my physical and mental health.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Adam Le Doux, the creator of the game-making software, was working as a programmer at Microsoft while beavering away on creative projects in his spare time.

From The Verge ● Mar. 7, 2022

Hewlett, meanwhile, has been beavering away at his home in Paris.

From BBC ● Dec. 9, 2020

“What I remember is this rivetingly beautiful dark-haired creature beavering away in her cubbyhole,” said Barbara Jakobson, a longtime Museum of Modern Art trustee.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019

Thank'ee, Hurry; thank'ee, with all my heart—but I do a little beavering for myself as occasions offer.

From The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper