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[spee-sheez, -seez] / ˈspi ʃiz, -siz /


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Species including Homo ergaster, Homo erectus, and Neanderthals likely had increasingly strong right-hand preferences, eventually leading to the extreme dominance seen in modern humans.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

When disease and weather kill cattle at about one thousand times the rate of wolves, struggling ranchers clearly have much bigger concerns than the Endangered Species Act.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The species is now listed as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species.

From BBC • May 7, 2026

His Turner Endangered Species Fund, launched in June 1997, has worked to save gopher tortoises, monarch butterflies and leopard frogs, working mainly with private landowners.

From Barron's • May 6, 2026

A century and a half before Darwin wrote The Origin of Species, Maria vividly showed nature as a struggle for survival.

From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman




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