organisms
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Those fossils came from organisms that lived during the older Ordovician period.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
Natural-fiber garments shed microfibers that have been found in oceans and human lung tissue, and have harmed marine organisms in lab studies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
Rodrigo Brasil Choueri, an associate professor and marine ecotoxicologist at the Federal University of São Paulo in Brazil, has been researching the impact of microfibers on marine organisms.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
One of these organisms is the deep-sea archaeon Methanocaldococcus infernus, which lives in volcanic marine environments where vent fluids can reach temperatures above the boiling point of water.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026
Genes that produce fitness become gradually overrepresented in populations through the selection of phenotypes, thereby allowing organisms to become more and more adapted to their environments.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
