prehistoric
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The wound is thought to be the first evidence for use of sharpened wooden spears in the prehistoric Middle East, according to Pomeroy.
From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026
A dinosaur fossil that spent nearly a century overlooked in a museum collection has turned out to belong to an entirely new species of prehistoric predator.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
Remarkably, the antibacterial activity appeared regardless of which prehistoric extraction technique the researchers used.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
"Our findings show that it might be worthwhile to examine targeted antibiotics from ethnographic contexts - or, as in this case, from prehistoric contexts - in greater depth," concludes Siemssen.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026
Later, when Moody saw the finished photos, he thought at first that Pearl looked like a delicate fossil, something caught for millennia in the skeleton belly of a prehistoric beast.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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