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

Unlike missile launchers, which because of their size and signature can be hunted down by U.S. and Israeli aircraft, Shaheds are easily concealed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 3, 2026

Like most Indians, she has only ever hunted for white label bargains in street-side bazaars all her life.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

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

From Science Daily • Feb. 18, 2026

I was not at all sure Mike's rods would come from Scotland in time, so we hunted a tackle store and finally bought a rod for Bill up-stairs over a drygoods store.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway