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Recent Examples on the Web Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. — Chase Peterson-withorn, Forbes, 6 Apr. 2021 Prasad has ruled out donating his type specimens—which defined new species of dinosaurs and early mammals—to his own University of Delhi, one of the best in the nation. — Sanjay Kumar, Science | AAAS, 4 Apr. 2018 But since Linnaeus’ body was never exhumed from its resting place in Sweden, his posthumous status as the human type specimen is more of a formality than a practicality. — Ellen Airhart, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2018 Neither the photographer nor the subjects agreed to provide our digital type specimens. — Ellen Airhart, WIRED, 10 Mar. 2018 But having the type specimen from the greater Miami area is still pretty cool. — Jenny Staletovich, miamiherald, 19 Jan. 2018 Many of the researchers carry sophisticated species databases with them on their laptop computers, including photos of type specimens. — Richard Conniff, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017

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“Type specimen.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/type%20specimen. Accessed 28 Sep. 2021.

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