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Recent Examples of insectivoreMoreover, in every case, the ancestors were either insectivores or carnivores, with insect-eaters making the shift about three times more often than carnivores.—Rupendra Brahambhatt, ArsTechnica, 20 Aug. 2025 Belonging to the same group of mammals as sloths and anteaters, armadillos are voracious insectivores that eat large numbers of beetles, grubs, ants, termites, and other insects, grabbing them with their sticky tongues.—Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 18 July 2025 The lemurs and tenrecs of Madagascar, for example, are descended from primates and insectivores that used to be much more widespread.—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 June 2025 This tiny insectivore has an exceptionally fast metabolism, demanding near-constant feeding to survive.—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 15 Mar. 2025 Among the species declines that have led to billions fewer birds in North America over the last half-century, grassland birds and aerial insectivores have been hit especially hard, having lost many bugs that once fed them.—Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 22 Sep. 2024
Levi studies the endangered Humboldt marten, a small carnivore that lives on the Northern California and Southern Oregon coast.
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Andrew Cunningham,
ArsTechnica,
28 Aug. 2025
And, in Patagonia at the time, that was dinosaurs – from medium-sized herbivores to smaller carnivores – whose fossils have also been unearthed in the same rock layers.
Card-carrying herbivores, seed-eaters, and omnivores switched to a cicada-heavy diet during a brood emergence in Washington, D.C., in 2021, according to Martha Weiss, a professor of biology at George Washington University.
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Sarah Henry,
The Courier-Journal,
8 July 2025
But slugs can be beneficial omnivores that feed on algae, fungi, decomposing organic matter and plants.
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Tom MacCubbin,
The Orlando Sentinel,
5 July 2025
When the creature eventually gets munched on by a bigger fish, the concentration of DDT in the new predator's bloodstream only heightens.
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Sophie Hartley,
IndyStar,
3 Sep. 2025
Complicating matters is several of the lethal alien creatures on board, including a xenomorph-spawning facehugger, escape from their confines and pick off the crew one by one until Morrow is the sole survivor.
Plus, critters may sneak in and can stain, damage, or create holes in fabric.
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Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
An iconic critter will arrive on the coasts of California soon, and conservationists want the public to help keep a look out for the endangered species.
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Brooke Baitinger
September 6,
Sacbee.com,
6 Sep. 2025
My favorite Maginot menagerie beastie remains the multi-eyed crawling eyeball, who in this episode takes up residence within the eye socket of a Prodigy lab goat.
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Noel Murray,
Vulture,
27 Aug. 2025
Most of the remaining beasties now live on remote islands near the equator, and most humans would conveniently like to forget them.
This could include, but is not limited to, major vermin contamination.
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Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
5 Sep. 2025
In 2023, facility residents told Louisville Metro Council members about mold, vermin, piles of trash and safety concerns at the complex, The Courier Journal reported.
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Killian Baarlaer,
The Courier-Journal,
22 Aug. 2025
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