What is "fauna"

Usage examples of "fauna".

Jurassic marine strata are often correlated worldwide with great precision and confidence by recognition of a regular succession of ammonoid fauna that occurs in the same sequence wherever marine sediments of suitable age are preserved.

Many are the indications that our autocthonous predecessors saw a very great deal of the intimate habits of the flora and the fauna and the avifauna, and spoke freely of them, and attributed in their legendary many of these habitsmuch of the particular form and colour, and even habitat, to the influences of supernatural beings and occurrences.

Other fauna boasted by the local biome included marsh rabbits, deer, river otters, a night bird called a clapper rail, and the rare bobcat.

But its people -- mostly Suni Muslim engineers from the failed Trans-African Genetic Reclamation Project -- stubbornly refused to die during the Fall, and ended up terraforming Groombridge Dyson D into a Laplandic tundra world with breathable air and adapted-Old Earth flora and fauna, including wooly mammoths wandering the equatorial highlands.

Chult, he had, as Byrt suggested, simply dismissed the unique duo as yet another example of bizarre local fauna.

An abrupt change of landscape into something dreamish and unsettling, where wisp-shapes rise in basalt-hard congelation, clotted clouds on which the tough fauna of the smokestone run.

Furthermore, so exceptional a mass of rock, largely earthless, baked by a tropical sun and soaked by tropical rains, was likely to have an exceptional flora and fauna.

The intensive development of hadrosaurs, replacing the then extinct iguanodonts, the ankylosaurs replacing stegosaurs, and a widespread expansion of horned dinosaurs are just a few examples of the flourishing fauna of herbivorous dinosaurs from the Late Cretaceous.

Now I was far more likely to dream about the fauna around Lake Kiboko, the wildflowers along the rivercourses, or my relationship with Helen.

Considering that Muta was still in its Triassic period, none of the native fauna had brains much bigger than peanuts.

The feet themselves were heavily padded and nailless, which fact had also contributed to the noiselessness of their approach, and, in common with a multiplicity of legs, is a characteristic feature of the fauna of Mars.

The southern mountain range, like the one at the lower tip of the peninsula which was folded during the same orogeny, was a refuge for the flora and fauna of a continent during the Ice Age.

Nobody survived as pointman on as many different worlds as he had without being very good at observing native fauna.

We moved on to an interesting discussion of exotic fauna like hoop snakes, snippers, blimps, and the truly disgusting rocket slugs, which dodge predators by expelling feces so violently they shoot into the air and glide great distances.

The fauna was far more dangerous than any Lunzie had seen on Ambrosia or on any of the planets she had so far visited.