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

This time the stakes also include her sister’s life as the pair are hunted by some of the world’s most rich and powerful people.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 15, 2026

That pattern led some researchers to suggest these fish eating theropods may have been fully aquatic predators that hunted underwater.

From Science Daily • Feb. 23, 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

They exchanged members, hunted together, traded rare luxuries, cemented political alliances and celebrated religious festivals.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari