bestiary

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The crew, who are near the end of a 65-year mission — suspended animation keeps them young and pretty — are transporting an extraterrestrial bestiary back to Earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 11, 2025

Her bestiary, inevitably, is also a catalog of human greed, ego, and neglect.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024

Designer Virginie Viard collaborated again with contemporary artist Xavier Veilhan who used a bestiary in house founder Coco Chanel’s apartment as a creative springboard for the carnival-like spring decor.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 24, 2023

Neutrinos are, without question, the weirdest denizens of the vast and varied particle-physics bestiary: They come in three types, but somehow oscillate between these different forms as they travel.

From Scientific American • Apr. 13, 2022

I returned to the table and flipped through the children’s book again before abandoning it for the bestiary.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss