beaver

With its short fur and broad, flattened tail, Megacauda sungei would have looked somewhat like a modern otter, beaver, or platypus.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Forestry England's Richard Boles said they initially thought the female beaver had given birth to only one kit, before video footage revealed there were two more.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Three beaver kits have been born in a forest as part of a conservation programme.

From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026

Soccer fans visiting a very large gas station for the first time… carry-on BBQ sandwiches & beaver nuggets?

From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026

“The beaver dam upstream,” said Nala, somehow keeping her cool the way she always did.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

Along with pigs and beavers, cats often served as ingredients in human medicaments.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

A family of Eurasian beavers was released at Paradise Fields in 2023, returning the animals to urban London for the first time in more than 400 years.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

She said she saw more than two dozen dead animals, including raccoons and beavers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

"It's been really interesting to see how the general public have taken to beavers and getting people thinking about seeing them back in our countryside."

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Roz roamed across the island and checked in with the beavers and the bears and all the friends she’d missed.

From "The Wild Robot" by Peter Brown

If Musk had quietly beavered away on something that might have helped, that would have been one thing, but that isn’t Musk’s style – he happily admits to his own arrogance.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2018

For two months, they beavered away at the problem.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2014

There were issues of "privacy" and "commercial confidentiality" here apparently, as big hackers beavered away untouched.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 28, 2013

"They have beavered away trying this and trying that and the formulations have changed over the last 50 years, but not radically."

From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2011

He is a most industrious small chopper, and the other day gnawed down, or as the children call it, "beavered" down, a misshapen tulip tree, which was about fifty feet high.

From Letters to His Children by Theodore Roosevelt

We need our labs to keep beavering away just to prepare us to understand capabilities that are coming whether we like them or not.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Adam Le Doux, the creator of the game-making software, was working as a programmer at Microsoft while beavering away on creative projects in his spare time.

From The Verge ● Mar. 7, 2022

After the success of Latin Grammy-nominated single Otro Trago, be sure that he’s beavering away on the song of the summer.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2019

“What I remember is this rivetingly beautiful dark-haired creature beavering away in her cubbyhole,” said Barbara Jakobson, a longtime Museum of Modern Art trustee.

From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2019

"Tain t as bad as beavering," answered Sam.

From Two Little Savages Being the adventures of two boys who lived as Indians and what they learned by Ernest Thompson Seton