Sentence examples for sole specimen from inspiring English sources

Linnaeus' remains comprise the type specimen for the species Homo sapiens, following the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, since the sole specimen he is known to have examined when writing the species description was himself.

I knew that I probably wouldn't find any dinosaur eggs – that the best and perhaps sole specimens had been carted away on camelback almost a century ago.

The sole surviving specimen of Tympanuchus cupido, which has been hopping and flitting about theisland of Martha's Vineyard for the past few years under the fascinated gaze of the ornithologists has disappeared... View Article By Malcolm Gladwell By Rivka Galchen By Jelani Cobb By Ceridwen Dovey.

The book also includes the illustration of a lone wolf with an unhinged look and a hint of slaver round its chops, most likely based on the sole wolf specimen that he held in his collection.

The sole surviving specimen of Tympanuchus cupido, which has been hopping and flitting about theisland of Martha's Vineyard for the past few years under the fascinated gaze of the ornithologists has disappeared... View Article By Troy Patterson By Phil Klay By John Cassidy By Andy Borowitz.

The sole surviving specimen of Tympanuchus cupido, which has been hopping and flitting about theisland of Martha's Vineyard for the past few years under the fascinated gaze of the ornithologists has disappeared.

A number of mid-19th-century schools, like the 1856 P.S. No. 7 on 12th Street east of University Place in Manhattan, are extant, but it appears that the academy is the city's sole surviving specimen from the 18th century.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) last assessed this species as Vulnerable, when only the sole type specimen was known.

Upper Pleistocene – Holocene: 11,460±60 yr BP (13,427 13,207 cal yr BP; lab code: KIA-30992) is the 14C age obtained for the sole dated specimen.

A novel extraction method with the ability to retain and purify heavily fragmented DNA is used to investigate two feathers from the sole surviving specimen.

To investigate the validity of this taxon and its relationship to the morphologically diverse extended Dodo clade we recovered and sequenced the DNA from two feathers from the sole surviving specimen of the Spotted Green Pigeon.