beaked

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Most of the 485 fossils the scientists catalogued were from different species of beaked whales.

From Barron's • Jun. 10, 2026

Jay Cowen, from the trust, told BBC Radio Cornwall it was believed the whale was either a Cuvier's beaked whale or a northern bottlenose.

From BBC • Jan. 9, 2025

But a northern population of beaked hazelnuts revealed something surprising: five distinct genetic subgroups, four of which could be traced to far-flung locations across British Columbia, some 800 kilometers away.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 18, 2024

He stressed also that there is still little known about how animals, such as beaked whales and squid, use this ecosystem.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 25, 2024

Repeated indefinitely, as though by a train of mirrors, two faces, one a hairless and freckled moon haloed in orange, the other a thin, beaked bird-mask, stubbly with two days’ beard, turned angrily towards him.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley