ancestral
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Every year during the breeding season, the volunteers work to help toads cross the busy A525 from their land habitat to their ancestral breeding ground at the reservoir.
From BBC • Apr. 19, 2026
For the first time in more than 80 years, the fish swam in their ancestral river, where they had once been abundant.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2026
Indigenous tribes whose ancestral home includes Nevada’s high desert have derided “City,” which now includes a land acknowledgment on its website.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026
By comparing how these gene clusters are arranged across hundreds of plant genomes and tracing their patterns from ancestral species to modern plants, they were able to detect conserved elements that earlier methods had missed.
From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026
His guest slumped in one of the armchairs that faced the row of ancestral portraits in Lord Fredrick’s study.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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