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ELLE (10D: "Maleficent" actress Fanning ... BALEEN (47D: Bristly filter feeding system in whales) There are currently 16 species of BALEEN whales. These whales use BALEEN plates in their mouths ...

You can, of course, be an artist in total solitude. But it’s more realistic, practical, and, some would argue, fulfilling to ...

Mar. 12, 2025 — A critically endangered new species of killifish sampled from an ancient forest in Kenya in 2017 and 2018 has now been described. Nothobranchius sylvaticus, from the Latin ...

The discovery of a well-preserved fossil is helping researchers learn more about an iconic Jurassic-period species. The plesiosaur, considered a successful marine predatory ancient species ...

IRAN (18A: Country where Narges Mohammadi was born) Narges Mohammadi is the vice president of the Defenders of Human Rights Center, an Iranian human rights organization. She was awarded the Nobel ...

Feb. 26, 2025 — The reason why so many tree species can coexist in species-rich forests has long been a subject of debate in ecology. This question is key to understanding the mechanisms ...

The discovery of thousands of species unknown to science raised concerns about unintended impacts, but it also highlighted an unsettling fact about our relationship with the natural world ...