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Their analyses show that the rapid transition of ancestrally bottom-dwelling, or benthic, anglerfishes into open-ocean, or pelagic, habitats occurred during a period of major global warming 50 to 35 million years ago.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2024

While not accusing the company of any wrongdoing, Ms Claridge said: "Conservation of these lands should be undertaken by the communities who ancestrally own them and who know how to do so."

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2023

We know, either directly or ancestrally, that it’s connected with something holy.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 9, 2022

"Although they had higher metabolic rates ancestrally, ornithischians reduced their metabolic abilities towards ectothermy," the authors wrote.

From Salon • May 29, 2022

Or if hosts of living frogs have come here—from somewhere else—every living thing upon this earth may, ancestrally, have come from—somewhere else.

From The Book of the Damned by Fort, Charles