scavenger
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The finding supports the picture of T. rex as an active predator or scavenger with a relatively fast metabolism rather than a sluggish animal that depended heavily on basking in the sun.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 20, 2026
The steps that had to be followed to find a party or rave added to the fun, turning these events into adrenaline-pumping scavenger hunts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
There was a tour of the foundry and museum, and a murder-mystery scavenger hunt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
At one man's request, the agency devised a "Mission Impossible" production for an adventurous young woman: an iPad delivered in the morning launched a scavenger hunt across Paris by sidecar and by boat.
From Barron's ● Feb. 12, 2026
It’s not the first time Dad has sent us on a summer scavenger hunt of the city, but usually it’s a little more thought out.
From "Watch Us Rise" by Renée Watson and Ellen Hagan
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Notably, neither scavengers nor flies that fed on the supposedly poisoned carcasses have perished -- creatures that typically succumb after consuming poisoned animals.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
"They are essential to eco-systems", he says, detailing how as scavengers they remove tonnes of waste on a "phenomenal scale".
From BBC ● Jul. 19, 2026
The couple kept feeding the scavengers, it said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
In the 1960s, discoveries in Africa showing that ancient hominins consumed meat raised a key question: were they skilled hunters, or were they primarily scavengers?
From Science Daily ● Jan. 19, 2026
Here and there the imprint of things wrested out of the tar by scavengers.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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