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Recent Examples of subspeciesScientists, nature enthusiasts and that rare subspecies of humanity obsessed with spiders all come to witness something remarkable: hordes of fuzzy, fist-sized male tarantulas emerging from their burrows to scour the shortgrass prairie for mates.—David Kelly, Los Angeles Times, 31 Oct. 2022 Nearly 1,200 rare and endangered species and subspecies are represented.—San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022 This subspecies called Sarada superba is only found on India's Chalkewadi plateau and is identifiable by its blue, orange and black throat.—Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Oct. 2022 White tigers are not a separate species or subspecies of tiger.—Riley Davis, Discover Magazine, 25 May 2022 See All Example Sentences for subspecies
The Department of Buildings told CBS News New York and News 12 Long Island that a 10-by-10-inch section of the ceiling collapsed due to possible water damage, and pieces of the building fell on customers dining inside.
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Charlotte Phillipp,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
The books are now located on the top shelves of adult nonfiction sections, with signs notifying patrons of the change.
But these large molecules have cast a long shadow over a smaller subclass of proteins called microproteins.
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Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
19 Aug. 2025
This is particularly true of a subclass called Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), devices that implement our communication networks, or control infrastructure such as power grids or chemical plants.
Bieber himself was aware of the anxiety over the delays and posted a couple messages on his Instagram that there seemed to be a technical delay of some sort.
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Abid Rahman,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Sep. 2025
In practice, the humanoid can stack, sort, and arrange dishes with care that mirrors human handling.
In other words, their booming success as a species is directly tethered to our own.
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Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
Auron recently found a plant that turned out to be a partridge pea, a legume species native to the East Coast that has bright yellow flowers in summer and fall.
Jingia dongxingensis was excavated from the Dongxing Formation and was named a new genus and species in 2024.
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Julia Jacobo,
ABC News,
2 Sep. 2025
In addition to this specimen being an entirely new species, Kostensuchus is also a novel genus, making this discovery even more important to the evolutionary tree.
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