offspring
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That pair and their two youngest cubs returned in 2024 to the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding, where their five older offspring also live.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026
Who wants to contemplate our technological offspring ending our existence?
From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026
When wild females mated with them, they produced no viable offspring, gradually driving the population toward collapse.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026
In an unprecedented display of extended parenting, the two white-tailed parents skipped a year's breeding season to continue to tend for their year-old offspring.
From BBC ● Sep. 4, 2026
A single pair of rats could produce more than eight hundred offspring in a year, spreading infection and contaminating food.
From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman
It sticks out like a sore thumb among the Camden Yards offsprings that followed.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 16, 2023
Internal fertilization leads to more genetic variations and increases the survival rates of offsprings.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
He deduced that the imperfect offsprings were younger ones who had spent less time in their mother’s womb—a direct consequence of superfetation.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 27, 2011
Toys R Us' "Fabulous 15" top picks includes Monster High dolls, offsprings to famous monster characters, and Hasbro's Cuponk, a game that challenges players to master ball-and-cup tricks using a wall.
From Reuters ● Sep. 21, 2010
There was a column for each of the hens and their possible offsprings, and the grand total, expressed in terms of chickens, was stupendous.
From Punch or the London Charivari, September 9, 1914 by Sir Owen Seaman
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