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The coastal marten, also known as the Humboldt marten, is about the size of a ferret and lives in coastal forests.
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Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
Forty-six different martens, consisting of 28 males and 18 females, were found following genetic analysis of hair, per the OSU release.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
The genetic analysis of the hair identified 46 different martens (18 females and 28 males) living in Klamath, California.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2026
Levi studies the endangered Humboldt marten, a small carnivore that lives on the Northern California and Southern Oregon coast.
—Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
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Kerry Breen, CBS News, 29 Jan. 2026
Forty-six different martens, consisting of 28 males and 18 females, were found following genetic analysis of hair, per the OSU release.
—Gabrielle Rockson, PEOPLE, 28 Jan. 2026
The genetic analysis of the hair identified 46 different martens (18 females and 28 males) living in Klamath, California.
—Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Jan. 2026
Levi studies the endangered Humboldt marten, a small carnivore that lives on the Northern California and Southern Oregon coast.
—Andrew Cunningham, ArsTechnica, 28 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for marten
Noun
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The tension is thicker than mink.—
Amy Nicholson,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Apr. 2026
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His white mink coat had a tail as long as the entrance ramp.—
Ryan Gaydos,
FOXNews.com,
19 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Here's what to know about Splash the otter.—
Saman Shafiq,
USA Today,
7 June 2026
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My ankles are the size of small, attractive otters.—
Pat Beall,
Sun Sentinel,
5 June 2026
Noun
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Buc-ee's plans to open another store in Ohio, bringing its gas station, convenience store and smiling buck-toothed beaver mascot closer to the Pennsylvania stateline.—
Madeline Bartos,
CBS News,
4 June 2026
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Read more on how the British beavers are helping to combat flooding.—
Brittney Melton,
NPR,
21 May 2026
Noun
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Madonna hunts pheasant in the English countryside, Thomas Edison electrocutes an elephant, Harry Harlow conducts callous experiments on monkeys, and Jimmy Carter fends off a swamp rabbit attack.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 June 2026
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According to Larimer County Department of Health and Environment, the bacteria was identified in a dead rabbit.—
Jennifer McRae,
CBS News,
9 June 2026
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Over the next several decades, a roll call of Pennsylvania’s native animals would be extirpated, including mountain lions, wolves, wolverines, badgers, pine marten, and fisher cats; whitetail deer were nearly wiped out of the state, as were black bears and turkeys.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 June 2026
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Although honey badgers are often described online as though venom simply doesn’t affect them, the reality is a bit more nuanced.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2026
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Rabies is most common in wild animals including skunks, raccoons, bats and foxes.—
Laura Horne,
Charlotte Observer,
11 June 2026
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In areas of Everglades National Park, where the snakes started showing up in the 1980s, sightings of mammals such as marsh rabbits, raccoons, opossums, bobcats and deer have plummeted by 80% to 99%, depending on species.—
Bill Kearney,
Sun Sentinel,
11 June 2026
Noun
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For many fishers in the region, hunting these fish down using compound bows and arrows have become a local sport — and the state of Maryland hopes that promoting bowfishing can help curb the growth of the population.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
8 June 2026
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Every June, Oceans Month reminds us that the ocean connects us all — to see the connection between the creek behind a neighborhood and the deep Atlantic, between a crabber on the Chesapeake and a fisher in the South Pacific and between local action and planetary consequence.—
Serena C. McIlwain,
Baltimore Sun,
8 June 2026
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In fact, one quite successful muskie artificial lure is fashioned of fur in the shape of a small muskrat, and has a black soft-plastic tail.—
Byron W. Dalrymple,
Outdoor Life,
4 June 2026
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And from there, titters occasionally came out as the unleashed host moved on to one of the highest forms of comedy, muskrat humor.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
23 May 2026
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“Marten.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marten. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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