specimen

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The research also revisits older specimens that were previously too damaged to study in detail.

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"The occurrence of juvenile specimens raises the question whether active reproduction may be occurring in the region."

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"When specimens are digitized, we can build libraries of organisms that can streamline their use from scientific laboratories to classrooms to Hollywood studios."

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Preparing the specimen was a slow and careful process.

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To determine whether these frogs had been significantly underestimated, Chan and his colleagues collected DNA from specimens gathered across the mountainous rainforests of Malaysian Borneo.

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