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species

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


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The reserve is a safe haven for native and exotic birds, ducks and geese, and some of its collection including globally at-risk species.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Despite differences among species and environments, the largest individuals tended to reach roughly 80 millimeters in the body measurement used by the researchers.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

"Our results show that by 2020, nearly half of coral species were at elevated relative risk of extinction" with climate change the main driver of this decline, wrote Obura and dozens of top scientists.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

The review covered hundreds of species on the IUCN's "red list" -- icons like staghorn and table corals whose mineral skeletons give reefs their dazzling three-dimensional complexity.

From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026

Almost everything he encountered in Cuba—including, at our hotel, the variety of fish in the ponds, whose species he could easily name, and the caged cockatoos in the lobby—pleased him.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French


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