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biologist

[bahy-ol-uh-jist] / baɪˈɒl ə dʒɪst /


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Lucky for skeptics, Nadira Goffe interviewed a whale biologist about how realistic the film is.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

For the past five years, Sweet and fellow graduate student Mat Bloomfield have worked with cell biologist Daniela Cimini to investigate cells carrying abnormal numbers of chromosomes, a common characteristic of cancer.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Dr Martyn Kurr, a marine biologist from Bangor University told BBC News that non-native or "biofouling" species, like the carpet sea squirt, can outcompete native wildlife for valuable nutrients.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

On a recent afternoon I joined Roden-Reynolds, the public health biologist, as he surveyed an elderly couple’s yard in Chilmark, a tick hot spot.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 4, 2026

Kinda weird that he would hang over the ocean, tagging sharks in the name of science, but he wouldn’t call a biologist to dissect the one he caught, right?

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

Wu worked with biologists and used dim red light and a customised fisheye lens to minimise disturbance.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

A team of biologists working in the early morning hours Friday collected the olive ridley sea turtle eggs and transferred them to the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach, the agencies said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

Rosemary and Peter Grant, a married pair of evolutionary biologists who studied songbirds on Daphne Major, a small volcanic island in the Galápagos archipelago, are the subjects of Jonathan Weiner’s “The Beak of the Finch.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Wildlife officials said biologists responded to the location and conducted an assessment of the mountain lion after it was tranquilized.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

Even biologists choose to think this about themselves, despite the evidences of the absolute inevitability of death that surround their professional lives.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas


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