specimens
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The discovery highlights how even well-studied fossil groups can still hold major surprises, particularly when unusual specimens are preserved and made available for scientific investigation.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 20, 2026
After some plants evolved leaves, they began shading out shorter specimens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Those specimens suggest the species was undergoing gradual evolutionary changes as it adapted to shifting environmental and climatic conditions.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026
A draft leaked earlier this year prompted civil society groups to warn that Zambia was accepting wider data-sharing terms than other African countries, including long-term access to pathogen information and specimens.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
First, as Owen and Lyell pored through the fossils, they found an underlying pattern in the specimens.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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