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The new specimen, known as Gus, has already been valued at $30m but it could fetch more, possibly even becoming the most expensive dinosaur ever sold.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

She was excited to feature such an unusual specimen on her Instagram plant blog, @cubehousejungle, and hopes to make it to this year’s bloom too.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2026

But he was still far from a physical specimen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026

At the center was a specimen determined to likely be the baby of a crocodile-esque creature known as an embolomere, which lived mostly in the water but did develop little legs.

From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026

Peeta and I have been training intensely, though, and Finnick’s such an amazing physical specimen that even with Mags over his shoulder, we climb rapidly for about a mile before he requests a rest.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

He was jailed after an attempt to flee communist Germany but later made his way to West Germany where, following his medical studies, he invented the process to preserve biological specimens in 1977.

From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026

Most states need to send cyclospora specimens to the CDC for genetic fingerprinting because their own public-health laboratories can’t do it, Williams said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026

Because cartilage was not analyzed in any of the seven specimens, the researchers assumed that it played a similar role across the species.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026

As the day goes on, these smelly specimens will close back up and collapse, losing their infamously rotten odor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026

Socios en Salud wasn’t granted access to Peru’s national lab, so Farmer sent the ten specimens back to Boston and deposited them at the Massachusetts State Lab.

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