specimens
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After some plants evolved leaves, they began shading out shorter specimens.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
By comparing specimens preserved over many years, researchers were able to answer a fundamental question that would have been difficult to investigate through fieldwork alone.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026
By comparing the fossil with other prehistoric specimens and living animals, the team determined that Megacauda sungei belonged to the docodonts, an extinct group of early mammal relatives known as mammaliaforms.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 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
Again Peters asked him if he could send some people down to look at specimens of tissue from the monkeys.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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