prehistoric
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Wouldn’t you want to hang out with the guy unabashedly wearing a hat with a prehistoric creature bursting out of each end?
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026
The research was published in Cell under the title "Bronze Age Yersinia pestis genome from sheep sheds light on hosts and evolution of a prehistoric plague lineage."
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026
A remarkably complete skeleton uncovered along the UK's Jurassic Coast has been identified as a previously unknown species of ichthyosaur -- a group of prehistoric marine reptiles that once dominated the world's oceans.
From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026
The toothless bottom-feeder, which looks like a prehistoric catfish and can weigh over 200 pounds, has been overfished globally.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026
Although de Sautuola was sure the paintings were prehistoric, skeptical archeologists pronounced them forgeries.
From "The Annotated Mona Lisa" by Carol Strickland and John Boswell
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