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“By the time we got back to the lab, the little bugger had crawled out of the dish,” he recalls with some chagrin.

From New York Times • Feb. 6, 2024

Once they had crawled through their man-made hole they sprinted to display cases containing items from the imperial Ming Dynasty era, dating from the 14th Century.

From BBC • Jan. 19, 2024

The first specimen known to science was collected from a logging operation in 2015, where it had crawled out of felled tree and then died.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 26, 2023

In fact, one night, the team discovered a few third instars, which have no wings and are less than an inch long, had crawled almost 215 feet away from where they’d been released.

From National Geographic • Aug. 31, 2023

Gollum, it seemed, had crawled off along the ledge into the darkness beyond, when the gates of Minas Morgul opened, leaving the hobbits where they lay.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien