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creatures

  • plural
    of creature.
    creature
    noun
    an animal, especially a nonhuman.

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Apparently, when Sgiath is not out finding lost people or marine creatures, she likes to be wrapped up in her dog blanket.

From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026

This ‘NOVA’ presentation delves into the development of brains—those of both humans and some of our intelligent fellow creatures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

These creatures typically swim using tiny hair-like structures known as cilia, which move in coordinated patterns to propel them through water.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Halzen's great leap was to use ice instead -- unlike liquid water, it isn't disturbed by living creatures, and its darkness is constant at great depth.

From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026

First a cascade of shrew-like creatures with canine fangs, soaking wet, a dozen of them, and then a great horde of what looked like large green-horned squirrels, wailing and crying out—“Run! Run!” —as they went.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell