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[an-uh-muhl] / ˈæn ə məl /




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Using this information, their models could predict with more than 90% accuracy whether an animal possessed soft tissue flippers and whether it had highly or fully aquatic habits.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

The price of a small stuffed animal at the local grocery store where personal finance reporter Veronica Dagher shops.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

More than 100 people were involved in the rescue operation, including volunteers, lawyers, veterinarians, animal transport specialists, cargo teams and officials in Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Ireland.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

Whereas Hochman often compared L.A. to crime-plagued “Gotham City,” McKinney acknowledges the city’s more recent struggles are not with violence, but with quality-of-life crimes: unchecked homeless encampments, street racing, animal abuse on Skid Row.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

When the team came to a halt, I was so close to the animal I could hear it breathing.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

After a murder of crows kidnaps her little brother, a young girl ventures into an enchanted forest filled with talking animals and other magical beings, where a looming war will decide everyone's fate.

From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026

I still have one of those stuffed animals, a dog named Bou my dad bought me just a few years before he suddenly died when I was a child.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026

As treatment continued, the animals became less responsive to the compound, indicating that they had developed tolerance.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

When researchers removed MTCH2 specifically from the fat cells of mice, the animals burned more energy without increasing their physical activity or changing how much food they consumed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Harsh, bellowing shouts, snorting, baying animals… wagon wheels rattling, whip cracks, and a bugler’s call and marching feet.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes


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