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A smile cures all forms of sickness, yet behind many smiles lies a set of very sharp teeth, carnivorous and rarely satisfied. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 1 year ago
For the first time we know, in a lot of detail, about certain parts of the anatomy of these giant carnivorous dinosaurs. – Juan Canale	Found on CNN 1 year ago
What's particularly unique about this carnivorous plant is that it traps insects near its insect-pollinated flowers, on the surface, this seems like a conflict between carnivory and pollination because you don't want to kill the insects that are helping you reproduce. – Qianshi Lin	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Given that bonnetheads have a digestive system that resembles that of closely-related species that we know to be strict carnivores, we need to re-think what it means to have a ‘carnivorous gut’. – Samantha Leigh	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This print is bigger than any other we have found to date in the area, it is a record in size for carnivorous dinosaurs from the end of the Cretaceous period in South America. – Sebastian Apesteguia	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle. – Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin	added by anonymous 14 years ago

A smile cures all forms of sickness, yet behind many smiles lies a set of very sharp teeth, carnivorous and rarely satisfied.

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
1 year ago

For the first time we know, in a lot of detail, about certain parts of the anatomy of these giant carnivorous dinosaurs.

– Juan Canale

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What's particularly unique about this carnivorous plant is that it traps insects near its insect-pollinated flowers, on the surface, this seems like a conflict between carnivory and pollination because you don't want to kill the insects that are helping you reproduce.

– Qianshi Lin

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Given that bonnetheads have a digestive system that resembles that of closely-related species that we know to be strict carnivores, we need to re-think what it means to have a ‘carnivorous gut’.

– Samantha Leigh

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This print is bigger than any other we have found to date in the area, it is a record in size for carnivorous dinosaurs from the end of the Cretaceous period in South America.

– Sebastian Apesteguia

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The instinct to command others, in its primitive essence, is a carnivorous, altogether bestial and savage instinct. Under the influence of the mental development of man, it takes on a somewhat more ideal form and becomes somewhat ennobled, presenting itself as the instrument of reason and the devoted servant of that abstraction, or political fiction, which is called the public good. But in its essence it remains just as baneful, and it becomes even more so when, with the application of science, it extends its scope and intensifies the power of its action. If there is a devil in history, it is this power principle.

– Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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