animal kingdom
noun
: a basic group of natural objects that includes all living and extinct animals compare mineral kingdom, plant kingdom
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That means dreaming — or something close to it — may have emerged more than once across the animal kingdom in brains that look nothing like ours.
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Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
The biology of aging is so conserved or shared across the animal kingdom.
—Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
Somewhere over the course of their evolution, the class of hydrozoans — which includes certain kinds of jellyfish, hydras, and colonial siphonophores such as the Portuguese man-of-war — lost the genes that operate circadian clocks in the rest of the animal kingdom.
—Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
In other words, eliminating them from the animal kingdom would be like yanking an entire tier of Jenga blocks out of the middle of the tower.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2026
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Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2026
The biology of aging is so conserved or shared across the animal kingdom.
—Anderson Cooper, CBS News, 22 Mar. 2026
Somewhere over the course of their evolution, the class of hydrozoans — which includes certain kinds of jellyfish, hydras, and colonial siphonophores such as the Portuguese man-of-war — lost the genes that operate circadian clocks in the rest of the animal kingdom.
—Marlowe Starling, Quanta Magazine, 20 Mar. 2026
In other words, eliminating them from the animal kingdom would be like yanking an entire tier of Jenga blocks out of the middle of the tower.
—Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2026
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“Animal kingdom.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/animal%20kingdom. Accessed 2 Apr. 2026.
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