hunted

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Naturalist Stephen Boyes believes massive elephants live undetected on a remote plateau in Angola; they’d be descendants of a giant pachyderm hunted and killed 70 years ago that now resides in the Smithsonian.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2026

During the Early Cretaceous period, when it lived, small carnivorous dinosaurs hunted in the same ecosystems.

From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026

Once hunted to extinction in France, wolves began crossing over from Italy after gaining protected status under the 1979 Bern Convention.

From Barron's • Feb. 16, 2026

Last week, the US announced that it had boarded and inspected the Aquila II, which US forces had "tracked and hunted" to the Indian Ocean.

From BBC • Feb. 15, 2026

I hunted for them and found them and carried them down-stairs.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway