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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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That’s why Jeff Sikich, a wildlife biologist with the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, raced to install six cameras on the crossing itself two days ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

The Australian-born biologist said lead poisoning was a significant threat to birds across Europe and was one of the issues she explored in her 2019 expedition.

From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026

The Irkutsk Anti-Plague Institute landed in the global spotlight in recent weeks—months after the warning—when a biologist who worked at the laboratory died of a mysterious pneumonia.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2026

Lucky for skeptics, Nadira Goffe interviewed a whale biologist about how realistic the film is.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

“What kind of biologist are you?” said Dr. Schultz.

From "Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH" by Robert C. O'Brien

Livieri, 55, is one of a handful of biologists pulling night shifts across the Great Plains to save the black-footed ferret from extinction.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Amira McKee spent a night out with the biologists racing to pull America’s rarest predator back from the brink.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Federal biologists made a last-minute decision to relocate the eggs to the aquarium on Sept. 29, after forecasters predicted that high tides would swamp the nests.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2026

When separate lineages evolve to look alike, biologists call it convergent evolution, and it usually reflects a shared way of life rather than shared ancestry.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026

He launched into a jargon-packed technical presentation that was geared to his fellow molecular biologists, and it was immediately apparent to everyone in the room that none of them understood a word.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker


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