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But such a specimen was spotted on Wednesday evening at Guardian Live's special election event in Sydney.

It has been called andinobates geminisae, and a specimen was first collected in 2011.

They were thought to have disappeared 70 50 million years ago, but in 1938 a specimen was taken in the Indian Ocean near the mouth of the Chalumna River.

Often called a living fossil, the coelacanth (pronounced SEE-luh-canth) was long believed to have fallen extinct 70 million years ago, until a specimen was recognized in a fish market in South Africa in 1938.

In most cases, the failure mode of a specimen was identical to that under tensile loadings.

Filled circles: the last time a specimen was found to be alive.

* A specimen was deposited at the Herbarium of the Museum of Natural History in Lugano, Switzerland (LUG 19325).

Plants were identified and a specimen was submitted at Herbarium of Pakistan, Quaid-I-Azam UnIslamabad, Pakistan PakIslamabad, Pakistan

The degree of shear cracking damage in a specimen was quantified by the amount of shear deformation.

For many years the thickness of the enamel on the cheek teeth (molars and premolars) was used to define whether a specimen was a hominin or not.

Since there was no vision in the left eye, enucleation was performed as definitive treatment and a specimen was sent for histopathological analysis.