specimens

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Now they’re rising again, a battalion of restored and replica specimens, beloved by road-trippers, kitsch aficionados, artists, preservationists and savvy entrepreneurs.

From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2026

A team of Argentine experts are expected in Ushuaia in the coming days to capture and test specimens for the virus.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

That patient's specimen was taken on the ship, not in the US, Jackson said noting that there were two specimens collected from that patient, one of which was positive and the other negative.

From BBC • May 11, 2026

Until the 1960s, Ms. Horn writes, most zoologists had “studied only specimens on cold tables, or broken creatures in shackles or cages.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

They’d been placed in formaldehyde because Zanmi Lasante didn’t have the equipment to preserve the specimens in frozen sections.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French