zoology

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Specialists in zoology, ecology, and botany worked together to uncover how different species manage to survive there.

From Science Daily • Mar. 2, 2026

Her name was Iva Toguri D’Aquino, and she was born in Watts to Japanese parents in 1916 and had a degree in zoology from UCLA.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025

As a graduate student in zoology in the 1960s, the Scotsman Iain Douglas-Hamilton took on a dilemma in East Africa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 30, 2025

Oliver James, another flatmate who is studying zoology, transferred the scorpion into a plastic container with kitchen tongs.

From BBC • Oct. 10, 2024

Then in 1927, a professor of zoology in a Texas university, Dr. H. J. Muller, found that by exposing an organism to X-radiation, he could produce mutations in succeeding generations.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson