6 sentences with “specimens”

-It would be easier to study dead specimens," he says, "but there is the disadvantage that the species is cannibalistic.

While the men collected minerals and specimens of plants and animals, the overly curious Lewis sampled minerals by tasting them and at one point became seriously ill.

Several specimens of salamander fish are being studied at the Ohio Zoo where there is a special section for the observation of the smallest and strangest creatures on our planet.

Teacher Colberg gave me some of her most prized shell specimens, and when another group visited the Museum of Natural History in New York, they brought me a box full of the most wonderful specimens.

Just when he was beginning to regret his venture (the data was rather scarce and already known), he had his great reward: he discovered two specimens of a tiny animal that was thought to be extinct: the "dwarf hairy-eared lemur" (Allocebus trichotis, for science).

On the one hand," Calandra comments, "there is no organised system for the provision of such animals that would allow our researchers to have healthy monkeys (an essential condition); on the other hand, as a direct consequence of the above, it is often necessary to pay high prices to people who make a living from the trade in wild animals (an illegal activity, by the way) for specimens that arrive at the laboratories without any sanitary control".