creatures

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The new law supposedly explains how living creatures evolve increasingly complex features without defying thermodynamics.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Earlier studies had interpreted the marks as evidence of wormlike creatures or other tiny marine animals moving through seafloor sediment during the Ediacaran period, which came just before the Cambrian explosion.

From Science Daily • May 12, 2026

In such cases, the creatures may be unaware of the dangers because they are preoccupied, for example, by feeding, she said.

From Barron's • May 11, 2026

The creatures I’m mentioning here aren’t flukes in the animal kingdom.

From Slate • May 10, 2026

Sheydim were creatures of shadow, not truly of this world and unable to walk in sunlight.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny