specimen
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Sarabia saw it as a “simple missed opportunity,” a place for specimen plants to draw museum visitors outside.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
And both stars see the humor in this supposed specimen of a perfect man being born from Peter Dinklage’s queer basket weaver.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
The specimen in Busan was found to be a female dusky shark, a species linked only to two deadly attacks.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026
One of the biggest problems is that an electron beam can heat and eventually damage the specimen being examined.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Maria often brought her watercolors along to sketch a specimen or two.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
The whole genus is known from just seven specimens gathered over about 65 years, scattered across more than 2,500 kilometers of coastline, and nothing has been collected in nearly two decades.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 30, 2026
But Jenkins told the Today programme on Tuesday there were two sides to the debate, and that a lot of time, effort and money went into excavating the specimens.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
His books resist exoticizing the characters as alien specimens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2026
Dentinger also visited Papua New Guinea in hopes of collecting specimens from the location where the mystery originally began.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026
Like Darwin, Wallace had also embarked on a seafaring journey—to Brazil—to collect specimens and fossils and had emerged transformed.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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